[TriLUG] stupid user management question

[Mike Johnson]

Aaron S. Joyner wrote:

> useradd foo     # Adds a user named foo
> usermod -g users foo     # Changes foo's primary group to users
> userdel foo     # Deletes foo, and the usergroup foo that was created 
> when the user was

And, by they way, if you do  not have usermod and its ilk, you should at 
least have the vipw command which enables making 'safe' edits of the 
passwd file (uses lockfiles) and is a good practice to get into if you 
do start making hand edits of the passwd file.

Mike