We're hosting a class sometime in the next week or two, and I've been
asked to create 8 userids with superuser authority on a RedHat 5.4
system. I thought I had been fairly successful, but when I tried to
test the userids, I keep getting a password prompt, and at this point
I'm frustrated and not a happy camper. I hope someone can tell me what
I'm doing wrong. I also hope and suspect that it's something simple
stupid. I've got a couple of questions.
First, what command and options should I be using to create the userid
w/ a home directory and whatever else may be needed, along with the
superuser attributes?
Second what option do I need to use to make these userids superusers. I
was told that their uid needed to be zero, and I didn't need to do
anything else. That's apparently not quite true.
Third, how do I list the userid after it's created?
My initial attempt was the following command:
useradd -p user1 user1
but it doesn't create a superuser. So then I tried
usermod -o -u 0 user1
but I got an error message with --help info so I deleted the user1
userid with userdel, and started over. This time I tried
useradd -o -p user1 -u 0 user1.
I still couldn't log on so I changed the password:
usermod -p xuser1 user1
and I still can't log on.
I know I'm missing something, but I haven't got the foggiest idea what
it might be.
Sue Sivets
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Suzanne Sivets
Systems Programmer
Innovation Data Processing
275 Paterson Ave
Little Falls, NJ 07424-1658
973-890-7300
Fax 973-890-7147
[email protected]
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