useradd

qdickens · 10-31-2001, 02:54 PM

I have just inheritated a Redhat Linux 6.2 machine. I have very little experience with Linux. I have telnetted to the machine and logged in as root, and I am attempting to create a user account for myself. But when I enter useradd qdickens at [root@localhost /root]# I get a reply back that says
bash: useradd: command not found

Is this a proble because I am telnetted in, or is it another problem? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Quinton

rootboy · 10-31-2001, 04:09 PM

Running "useradd" as myself gives me "command not found". Adding the explicit path to it runs the command.

Try it with the entire path ("/usr/sbin/useradd"), if you get an error pertaining to the password file, try "su root" (even though it makes no sense that you should have to do this).

John

qdickens · 10-31-2001, 04:34 PM

That did the trick. Thank you very much!

Q.

rootboy · 11-02-2001, 12:00 AM

Anytime!

John

zhenwu · 11-02-2001, 02:41 PM

On the other hand, adduser is also (usually) a viable option...