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Old 08-01-2004, 07:29 PM   #1
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I'm having trouble creating users


Im a newbie to Linux, so I hope all you peoples don't laugh at me. lol
Anyways, Im running redhat 9.0 and I successfully added a new user manually, but I can't get the damned useradd command to work. I type useradd joeblow, and i get this: Bash: useradd: command cannot be found. oh and I am in su.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!
 
Old 08-01-2004, 07:45 PM   #2
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Are you logged as superuser(root)...? Try "/sbin/adduser".
 
Old 08-01-2004, 08:10 PM   #3
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log in as root

you might want to try adduser instead of useradd
 
Old 08-01-2004, 08:14 PM   #4
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i am logged in as root.. neither worked..
 
Old 08-01-2004, 08:20 PM   #5
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*scratches head*

um.. lol

try and look in /usr/sbin/
 
Old 08-02-2004, 12:06 AM   #6
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As root run updatedb wait wait wait till its done.

Then run locate useradd

If it doesn't show then it is not on your system.
 
Old 08-02-2004, 10:31 AM   #7
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Re: I'm having trouble creating users

Quote:
Originally posted by royalflush
Im a newbie to Linux, so I hope all you peoples don't laugh at me. lol
The worst thing you can do is to laugh at someone how is trying to learn GNU/Linux. (unless they post what they have done under a "worst computer stupidei site" it means that the person gets a bad fealing, and dont like GNU/Linux.

as for your problem try
whereis adduser
whereis useradd
 
  


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