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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!bubba.ucc.okstate.edu!news.ksu.ksu.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!news1.digex.net!usenet From: <Unknown> Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: NetBSD --> Help for a stupid user Date: 22 Jan 1995 22:43:28 GMT Organization: Express Access Online Communications, USA Lines: 28 Message-ID: <3fun2g$6p5@news1.digex.net> References: <D2nt5M.5wn@pnfi.forestry.ca> <3fn12m$g7d@sundog.tiac.net> <J.GRINTER.95Jan20173533@orchard.cc.ic.ac.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: dcc00200.slip.digex.net X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.92.6+ In article <J.GRINTER.95Jan20173533@orchard.cc.ic.ac.uk>, j.grinter@ic.ac.uk (James R Grinter) says: > >In article <3fn12m$g7d@sundog.tiac.net> umar@tiac.net (Rob Landry) writes: > borgan@alf.pnfi.forestry.ca (Bryan Organ) writes: > > >As another small, but annoying little development ... for some reason, I > >can not seem to be able to add a $#@! user. Even several sys. admins here > >have not been able to add a user. Am I missing something, or is it actually > >harder than it looks . . . > >run vipw... this makes the updates to the shadow password file and >rebuilds databases. Yes there are scripts to do this automatically, >no I don't have one but people often post pointers to them (someone >recently said there's some Tcl/Tk stuff). > > I create a user using vipw, then create a home directory for him. He can't > create files in his home directory, so I have to chmod 777 it. I've assigned > >create & *chown* home dir to his user..., then chmod 700 the home dir. >I did write a script do to this bit, and to copy across the .skel files >from /usr/share/... > > him to group 0-- "wheel", yet he can't su root (it says he's not in the > >assign to a different group, and then add to the wheel group (vi /etc/group). > >James. have you tried sh adduser -i in /stand