bash: useradd: command not found

360 · 08-23-2001, 12:33 AM

What's the problem here when I type:
useradd -d newuser /home/users
bash: useradd: command not found

Thanks

mcleodnine · 08-23-2001, 01:20 AM

Are you doing this a root? It's kind of a priveleged app so you need to be su.

360 · 08-23-2001, 01:29 AM

Yes I /bin/su to root.
I'll have to talk to the guy who set it up tomorrow or something.

Thanks for your help.

ektoric · 08-23-2001, 09:37 AM

when you do a su to root, you might not have your PATH set up correctly.
Depending on your distribution, users (including root) probably have their .bash_profile (runs at login) set up, but not there .bashrc (runs at new shell).

Simply append the sbin dirs to your PATH in .bashrc
#vi .bashrc
export PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/sbin:/sbin

or for your specific case, just call useradd with its full path name
# /usr/sbin/useradd -d newuser /home/users

360 · 08-23-2001, 09:41 AM

I found the problem.
I was going to root with /bin/su which did not give me all the privilages of a superuser.
By going to root with su - I have all the superuserprivelages.

Thanks