{"id":15,"date":"2009-06-23T09:55:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-23T09:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/2paisasbyviggy.wordpress.com\/2009\/06\/23\/difference-between-useradd-and-adduser-command"},"modified":"2009-06-23T09:55:00","modified_gmt":"2009-06-23T09:55:00","slug":"difference-between-useradd-and-adduser-command","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.viggy.in\/?p=15","title":{"rendered":"difference between useradd and adduser command"},"content":{"rendered":"<pre>useradd and groupadd are the posix or SUS-standardized tools to create<br \/>users and groups. You can expect them to work (almost) identically on all Linux<br \/>distributions as well as on HP-UX, Solaris, AIX, ...<br \/><br \/>adduser and groupadd are distribution specific wrappers which make it<br \/>simpler to create users which conform to some (distribution-specific or<br \/>local) policy. The options vary wildly between different distributions<br \/>and other UNIXes may not have these commands at all.<br \/><\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>useradd and groupadd are the posix or SUS-standardized tools to createusers and groups. You can expect them to work (almost) identically on all Linuxdistributions as well as on HP-UX, Solaris, AIX, &#8230;adduser and groupadd are distribution specific wrappers which make itsimpler to create users which conform to some (distribution-specific orlocal) policy. The options vary wildly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[46,315],"class_list":["post-15","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-adduser","tag-useradd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.viggy.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.viggy.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.viggy.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.viggy.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.viggy.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.viggy.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.viggy.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.viggy.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.viggy.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}