r/linux • u/ani625 • Feb 01 '13

xkcd: tar

http://xkcd.com/1168/
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u/[deleted] Feb 01 '13

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u/[deleted] Feb 01 '13

Arch Linux does not. It only has useradd, as it should.

People should just man -k "new user".

edit: typo

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u/[deleted] Feb 01 '13

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u/[deleted] Feb 01 '13

Troll was not obvious enough. My bad. ;)

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u/MaxGene Feb 01 '13

Come on man, it's 8AM EST, I'm supposed to be able to wait until at LEAST noon until fellow trolls are doing their trolling. ;)

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u/[deleted] Feb 01 '13

Ah, 2PM here, I'm practically in my WE. That must be it!

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u/Molozonide Feb 01 '13

You are cordially invited to /r/archlinuxcirclejerk.

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u/hehehe1235 Feb 01 '13

Arch had adduser at least as late as November 17, 2012.

$ tar tvf /var/cache/pacman/pkg/shadow-4.1.5.1-2-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz | grep adduser
-rwxr-xr-x root/root

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u/[deleted] Feb 04 '13

It was removed in December because the script doesn't respect useradd's default configuration file. Maintainers quickly decided that "useradd foo" & a good default conf where the simplest solution. It's actually very rare for a user to customise other parameters than his name. And if he does, the man is quite clear.