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Works for me. It might not be in your path variable. Type find / -iname adduser at the prompt as root. If nothing comes up then that's bizarre and quite possibly not healthy. I don't use RH and I know it's different but that's a core linux/unix command. Ignore any hits you get that are in a directory called "doc". That's all documentation. On my computer it's in /usr/sbin.
OK go to the directory and type ls -l *add. Check to see if they have executable permissions. If so then type ./useradd from that directory. Also, double check your path variable. Type echo $PATH and see if /usr/sbin is among the output.
It shows the command? You mean it runs/executes it? Well that should fix your adding user probs. To add /usr/sbin to your PATH variable use the command that Looking_Lost suggested: export PATH=/usr/sbin:$PATH. That just adds /usr/sbin to the PATH variable without overwriting any of the previous entries. To get this every time on boot just add that line to one of the startup scripts. The problem is that you just want to add it to root's one and not to everyone's. I'm not entirely sure how to do that.
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