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Drone4four
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 Posted: Sat Jun 24, 2006 2:07 am Post subject: "passwd: unknown user" on x86 |
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I do just as the Gentoo handbook tells me to, yet I cant figure out why I cant add a password to my freshly created user account!
Here is the input and output: | Code: | #passwd masterjohn
Passwd: unknown user masterjohn |
wtf?
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dkostic
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| Posted: Sat Jun 24, 2006 2:21 am Post subject: |
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Can you show us what code you tried to use to create the user masterjohn?
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Drone4four
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| Posted: Sat Jun 24, 2006 2:53 am Post subject: |
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Sure: | Code: | # useradd -m -G audio,users,cdrom,portage,usb,video,wheel /bin/bash masterjohn
Usgae: useradd [...]
useradd [...] |
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lxg
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| Posted: Sat Jun 24, 2006 9:20 am Post subject: |
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If you call a programm in Linux and it tells you something about its usage, you have certainly done something wrong, and the command has definitely not been exexuted. In your case, the correct command would be
| Code: | | useradd -m -G audio,users,cdrom,portage,usb,video,wheel -s /bin/bash masterjohn |
Don't forget to create, assign and chown a home directory to that user, or you'll get problems later.
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Drone4four
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| Posted: Sun Jun 25, 2006 8:51 pm Post subject: |
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| lx0 wrote: | If you call a programm in Linux and it tells you something about its usage, you have certainly done something wrong, and the command has definitely not been exexuted. In your case, the correct command would be
| Code: | | useradd -m -G audio,users,cdrom,portage,usb,video,wheel -s /bin/bash masterjohn |
Don't forget to create, assign and chown a home directory to that user, or you'll get problems later. |
Thanks lx0, this is exactly what I was looking for!
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