Return to BSD News archive
Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!agate!barrnet.net!Reason.cdrom.com!oz.cdrom.com!jkh From: jkh@freefall.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: bsd fails can not add users Date: 31 Oct 1994 22:42:39 GMT Organization: A poorly-installed InterNetNews site Lines: 14 Message-ID: <JKH.94Oct31144239@freefall.cdrom.com> References: <1994Oct30.002339.770@kfdata.no> NNTP-Posting-Host: freefall.cdrom.com In-reply-to: hansf@kfdata.no's message of Sun, 30 Oct 1994 00:23:39 GMT In article <1994Oct30.002339.770@kfdata.no> hansf@kfdata.no (Hans Petter Fasteng) writes: I installed FreeBSD 1.1.5 when I try to edit passwd to add a user (my self) to stop using root. It fails just telling me that the user I add is unkown. hansf::501:100:Hans Petter Fasteng:/home/hansf:/bin/csh First, make sure to use vipw to edit the password file. Then add the line like this: hansf::501:100::0:0:Hans Petter Fasteng,,,:/home/hansf:/bin/csh Jordan