Re: Why is man adduser there?

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On Mon, 16 Mar 2020, Ottavio Caruso wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> $ type adduser
> adduser not found
> 
> /usr/share/man/man8/useradd8
> and
> /usr/share/man/man8/adduser8
> 
> are hard linked. I believe there was an adduser script back in the day, which
> was eventually removed.
> 
> I wonder why there's a hard link. This could be confusing for those coming
> from FreeBSD/Linux who expect a guided account creation.

I agree it can be removed.

There are a few references to it on website that should be changed too.