I've installed tsl on a, rackspace p3 700mhz 512mb ram, server. When it prompted me to enter a user name and password, I did. But right after i installed it, it gave me some weird error saying that it couldnt create the user acct.. It finished installing, and i have root access. How do i create another account from the bash prompt or get access to a gui. Or do i have to install fluxbox or something like that?

you can add a user with the "adduser" command (followed by the user you want to add)...

AFAIK, if you have the shadow suite installed (you probably do) then you can opt for "useradd" instead which will be more interactive (it'll prompt you for the details)...

To create a user using defaults:
useradd <username>

and password
passwd <username>

I googled that shadow suite and i came up with (http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Shadow-Password-HOWTO-3.html). But what will i have to do to install fluxbox or does tsl have a builtin non-terminal interface?

O'k... I've created many user acct.'s in an attempt to login but it wont work. Whenever i try and login it just says "incorrect login". But it is registering somewhere that it has actually created the user acct.'s because i cant create 2 acct.'s with same name but i cant remove any of those acct.'s either. Any suggestions? Oh and is there some type of different login scheme? Like
(hostname) login: admin@bob
or something like that? or am i just delarious...

userdel is the command to delete a username
userdel <username>

userdel -r <username> will remove the users home directory.

BTW <username> refers to any desired name minus the <>

No other way to login... You did use the passwd command to create a password and hopefully it was confirmed?

I have trustix 2.2 on a couple of PCs and I haven't noticed anything unusal.

I did use the passwd reset function and it worked and i was able to login. But i only have the command prompt. What do i have to install to get a gui for tsl? is it another pacakge or tar ball? oh and when i do login in, it's not creating a directory for the user at /home/user/ and its giving me an error message.

The default home directory on 2.2 is /home/users/username. To see the defaults use the command:
useradd -D

If the default values are not correct then you can change them using the appropriate option. See man useradd pages for all the details or search via the web.

A GUI is not installed by default. However, xorg and XFree86 are in the contrib repository. Use swup to install it. (You may have to enable contrib in /etc/swup/swup.conf).

How do i enable swup?
and by contrib repository do u mean part of the install and i have to find it?

If i install slackware x.0 will it have the gui preset, so i dont have to install it?

thanks.

swup is the software update utility that comes with trustix. I believe swup is selected to be installed by default. All of the packages are stored at several ftp sites. The contrib repository is a ftp site that holds packages not in the default ftp site. Not sure exactly how it works and how the contrib stuff makes it into the next release.

Go edit the /etc/swup/swup.conf file and uncomment the routine that looks at the contrib repository. Then to see the packages type in the command

swup --search-package xfree86

For more info on swup see the man pages.

To install xfree86
swup --install xfree86

This is probally another stupid newb question but how do i obtain an ip address from my router? Since i'm used to winshit i figured that it would automatically obtain one and detect the dns settings... The server also has two network cards on it but i dont think that it would matter. I've tried googleing it to but have had no results...

The netconfig utility will configure the network connection.

What do i have to edit in the config file to enable it?
and whenever i try and open up gp to edit the text it just freezes everything...

netconfig is an application. i.e. log in as root and type in at the command prompt:
netconfig

gp?

wait.... In a previous post you stated that i might have to enable swup by whatever. And acccording to some site that had a list of bash commands, and it said that ed was a text editor...(thats what i meant).