Iam trying to add a new user group and user name. Iam running a RH 7.0 with KDE and GNOME. From the terminal emulator I run 'groupadd' and 'useradd' commands but I get a message that the command doesn't exist. I check the PATH and it points to /usr/bin and /bin. I browse these two directories using file manager but groupadd and useradd commands are not listed.
I tried running linuxconf & from the command prompt and even that won't run. Please help... Iam lost...

Prowzen

its addgroup and adduser

that;s what it is for my slack box :-)

Alex

P.S. doesn;t kde have a grahical user manager (or it that just with mandrake?)

Hmmm...

I am running Red Hat 7.1 right now, but have run SuSE 7 & 7.1, Mandrake 7.2, 8, and Red Hat 6.2 and 7, and in all of them KDE/GNOME has had some form of graphical user interface (for the user commands, that is :-) he heh)

Why don't you just download LinuxConf and install it, along with the gnome-gui package (I prefer that as it looks better than the linuxconf-gui package, and it works in KDE also.......) and use that??

In Red Hat 7.1, I just click on the start menu (god, can you tell I am a former windoze user?? :-) LOL) and then 'system' and then USER (Or USER MANAGER in some Dists)

Hope this helps.......

Thanks guys.....I tried the adduser/addgroup commands too but the system didn't recognize those commands. Even linuxconf was unrecognizable. Also my X-windows was crashing regularly. I decided to reinstall my RH 7.0 again. And guess what...the groupadd, groupuser and linuxconf worked fine after the reinstallation. One question here... The first time I installed RH 7.0 I chose workstation installation and seleced all the available packages(GNOME, KDE and Games)...this time I chose custom installtion and I chose all the packages(every damn thing that was on the CD like web server, utils, mail server, etc,etc)
Could that have made the difference? I thought these groupadd, groupuser and linuxconf commands are part of the basic OS package and shud have been working with the workstation installation itself.... or are these add-ons?

linuxconf worked great and I cud do everything with linuxconf. I used it on the text mode and I found it a very convenient tool....

i know that linuxconf is a default thing for red hat based systems. is should get installed for pretty much ny install you choose (though i don't know that for certain).

the adduser command etc i think should be there by default but im not sure. i get the impression that the command for slack is written by pat volderking himself (or one of his associates) so that might be why i was no help :-)

i could be wrong though

Alex

ACtually, in RH 7.1 Workstation, I had to install linuxconf myself by hand... It didn't get installed automatically by the regular install..

I know that SuSE 7.1 had it from the get go........

Not sure why linuxconf didn't go in from RH7.1, but it is easy to install. GnoRPM and install it from the 1st cd, along with gnome-gui package......