useradd

jerryluis · 02-16-2005, 03:32 PM

Hi, I installed fedora Core 3 on my machine , but I have little problem with some common command.

Actually I want to insall an antivirus (CLAMAV), I want to create a new group and a new user .
I try to run useradd and groupadd, but prompt show me
"bash: useradd: command not found"

Why? I'm login as root and when I run 'man useradd or man groupadd' it explain me every option and details.
Thank you! best regards
Jerry

secesh · 02-16-2005, 03:35 PM

are you using su to login as root? last i saw, FC doesn't add the sbin directories to your path when you 'su root', specify them explicitly (use the full path & command) or update your $PATH to include them

edit:
/usr/sbin/useradd

TheRealDeal · 02-16-2005, 03:37 PM

Hi.

Type in .... "which useradd" and let me know what it says. On my box it's like this...

[root@red root]# which useradd
/usr/sbin/useradd

Then type this.... /usr/bin/useradd and see if that works for you, let me know. Make sure you do it as root.

>Craig

dollster31 · 02-16-2005, 03:37 PM

not familiar with fedora, but, from basic unix experience, the useradd command is not in the PATH ENV var. The executable useradd is likely in /usr/sbin.

if it is not there, from the root ( / ) dir, run :
find . -name useradd

that will search the system for the useradd command and print to the term.

TheRealDeal · 02-16-2005, 03:37 PM

Sorry you got in just before me secesh

secesh · 02-16-2005, 03:39 PM

no problem, but here's a point to clarify:

Quote:

Which takes one or more arguments. For each of its argu_
ments it prints to stdout the full path of the executables
that would have been executed when this argument had been
entered at the shell prompt. It does this by searching for
an executable or script in the directories listed in the
environment variable PATH using the same algorithm as
bash(1).

if it ain't in your path to begin with, which won't find it... whereis (which searches 'standard linux places') might, though...

masand · 02-16-2005, 03:43 PM

useradd is a part of the shadow-utils package

do u have this installed

try

rpm -qa|grep shadow

archtoad6 · 03-20-2005, 01:28 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by secesh
are you using su to login as root? last i saw, FC doesn't add the sbin directories to your path when you 'su root', specify them explicitly (use the full path & command) or update your $PATH to include them

If you are using su to become root, try

Code:

 su -

to get root's path etc., not just root's privileges. (See man su :-)

Also, some distros -- I don't know about FC, provide adduser, moduser, addgroup, etc. instead of useradd, usermod, groupadd, etc.

equinox · 03-22-2005, 09:23 AM

Well here's my 2c worth...

I noticed if I boot with Selinux enabled that I cannot use "useradd" but somehow it does create the home directories but complains that it cannot write the passwd file. If I boot with Selinux disabled I can use the command.

Try for yourself.

Junior Hacker · 03-27-2005, 07:37 PM

I found in Debian that the " adduser " command was much better & easier to add a new user and give it permissions.