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Old 02-28-2004, 12:01 PM   #1
reesee
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'useradd' not working.


Hello

I'm not sure why, but my useradd and groupadd command is not working. I can do the man useradd command and get directions but it still does not work. I am on Fedora Core 1 with KDE3.2.

An example of a command I give is
useradd -g nofiles -d /var/qmail/alias -s /sbin/nologin -p'*' alias
and I get
Command not found, back.

Any ideas?
 
Old 02-28-2004, 12:05 PM   #2
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what do ya know, I was logged in as root, but I did su - and bingo!
ugh, I hate being a newbie
 
  


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