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Re:PowerShell vs. Unix shells by hartez on Friday July 13, 2012 @01:56PM (#4240924)
just try managing AD users in PowerShell - sure its easy once you've written your own custom script or mapped it to a web interface or something, but there's no built in equivalent for adduser or about a billion other basic UNIX commands

It's not that bad. Adding a new AD user is a built-in command. From the docs:

New-ADUser GlenJohn -OtherAttributes @{title="director";mail="[email protected]"}

I'm not a UNIX admin; maybe the adduser command is easier. But managing AD stuff in PS is pretty easy (especially if you have to do it in bulk).

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Re:PowerShell vs. Unix shells by niels_olson on Friday July 13, 2012 @06:28PM (#4242335)
me@my_server$ useradd -G director glenjohn

glenjohn@my_server$ vi .forward

:a

[email protected]

:wq

And there are at least a few other ways to do that. But you certainly don't have to be an admin to specify an alternate email address.

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