Add Users

AMDPwred · 03-18-2002, 06:21 PM

I forget the command to add users. Anybody?

glock19 · 03-18-2002, 06:24 PM

adduser

or

useradd

AMDPwred · 03-18-2002, 06:27 PM

I've tried both in SU and normal. I can't get it.

glock19 · 03-18-2002, 06:33 PM

try man useradd

you have to type in the name of the user you want to add like "useradd foo" or "adduser foo".

trickykid · 03-18-2002, 06:33 PM

when you su type:

su -

or

su root

so you have all of roots abilities and of course type the name after adduser of what user you want to add.

-trickykid

AMDPwred · 03-18-2002, 06:39 PM

I'm so confused.

[root@localhost amdpwred]# adduser jason
bash: adduser: command not found

trickykid · 03-18-2002, 06:44 PM

and it does the same for useradd jason ??

AMDPwred · 03-18-2002, 06:46 PM

Yeah.

neo77777 · 03-18-2002, 10:15 PM

Have you tried /usr/sbin/adduser ?
RH default doesn't include /usr/sbin in the PATH.

jayakrishnan · 03-19-2002, 05:11 AM

better login as root and try

adduser <username>

Sixpax · 03-19-2002, 09:09 AM

You could always do it the manual way... edit /etc/passwd, create the entry for your user, create his home dir and copy whatever files you need (.bash_profile, .bashrc, .wmrc, etc), change permissions on the dir to his, set his passwd. All done

fatgod · 03-20-2002, 01:30 PM

if you do want to do it manually, remember that you need to specify a unique uid, (they usually start at 500 and increment by 1).

taz.devil · 03-20-2002, 01:56 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by neo77777
Have you tried /usr/sbin/adduser ?
RH default doesn't include /usr/sbin in the PATH.

This is the problem that I had until I figured out that alot of distros don't default the /etc/profile as having /usr/local/sbin, /sbin or /usr/sbin in the path. My PATH statment looks like this:

# Set the default system $PATH:
PATH="/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/lib/jre1.3.1/bin"#

Add those to your /etc/profile. It's a good thing to have in there anyhow. You should be good then...