When I attempt to add a user account with adduser username it prompts me
for the password twice as I would expect then notifies me that the user
was not found in /etc/shadow (no duh! I am trying to ADD a new user!) and
kicks me back to the prompt for a password and it sticks in this loop.
I
I've had the same thing happen. I normally hit ctrl-C (which kills it)
then change the password either as root using passwd user or by logging
in as that user and changing the password, I forgett which one worked.
I don't add users often on my system since it's private, so it's not a big
deal
On Wed, 14 May 1997, Rick Jones wrote:
delgroup and deluser are broken too. deluser looks for a file with the
same name as the user entry in /etc/passwd and, of course, does not find
it, delgroup dies with:
line 13: syntax error near unexpected token `fi'
I've had the same thing happen. I
George == George Bonser [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
George When I attempt to add a user account with adduser
[...]
You need to get the newer version of `adduser`, which supports shadow
passwords, and works fairly well. Or, you can just use the shadow
suite utilities:
useradd,
On Tue, 13 May 1997, George Bonser wrote:
When I attempt to add a user account with adduser username it prompts me
for the password twice as I would expect then notifies me that the user
was not found in /etc/shadow (no duh! I am trying to ADD a new user!) and
kicks me back to the prompt
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