Richard Brown wrote:
> On 22/06/07, James Courtier-Dutton <james.dutton@???> wrote:
>> On 22/06/07, hantslug@??? <hantslug@???> wrote:
>> So, you might be right, it seems that the man pages are different
>> across Linux distros.
>> I think that is a bad thing.
>
> Across different version of shadow or whatever else provides usermod.
>
> shadow-4.0.14 doesn't have it in it's man pages, I haven't checked if
> that's because the man page is wrong or because it just doesn't have
> it
>
> http://www.google.com/codesearch?hl=en&q=show:MpXvp-6Fns0:_dUQuL__0gg:mVD8ndsfgog&sa=N&ct=rd&cs_p=http://www.nigauri.org/~iwamatsu/debian/superh/packages/shadow_4.0.14.orig.tar.gz&cs_f=shadow-4.0.14/man/usermod.8.xml
>
>
> 4.0.18.1, the version in gentoo, does have it
>
> http://www.google.com/codesearch?hl=en&q=show:p0o266kP8CQ:2fTiMU3l7Qs:eWAJ1QbRDE4&sa=N&ct=rd&cs_p=ftp://153.19.33.250/software/shadow/shadow-4.0.18.1.tar.bz2&cs_f=shadow-4.0.18.1/man/usermod.8.xml
4.0.12 on FC4 mentions it in passing as part of -G.
I guess all the distros really are different :)
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