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AscendantMage
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Joined: 29 Aug 2002
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Location: Oslo, Norway
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 Posted: Fri Apr 11, 2003 11:41 am Post subject: Trouble adding users |
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Heya, all...
Suddenly I can no longer add users to my system...
both useradd with the correct parameters and superadduser fail with
| Code: | | useradd: PAM authentication failed |
"superadduser" gives me:
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OK, I'm about to make a new account. Here's what you entered so far:
New login name: newuser
New UID: [Next available]
Initial group: users
Additional groups: audio,wheel
Home directory: /home/newuser
Shell: /bin/bash
Expiry date: [no expiration]
This is it... if you want to bail out, hit Control-C. Otherwise, press
ENTER to go ahead and make the account.
Making new account...
useradd: PAM authentication failed
chfn: Unknown user newuser
passwd: Unknown user mage
Done...
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And then returns me to the prompt...
Huh ?
Any suggestions are welcome...
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bkhl
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Location: Uppsala, Sweden
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| Posted: Fri Apr 11, 2003 1:36 pm Post subject: |
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| That's the error you would get if you are running useradd without root privileges... |
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guero61
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| Posted: Fri Apr 11, 2003 4:45 pm Post subject: |
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| I second the motion -- my first question is what user you're trying to add from. Usu., you can only add as root (or someone with root equivalency) |
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AscendantMage
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| Posted: Fri Apr 11, 2003 6:44 pm Post subject: |
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Thanks for the suggestions - but the problem lay elsewhere (I couldn't do it logged in as root either, fyi...) - reinstalling PAM solved the problem.
So, now it works just dandy 
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