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- From: mnl@dtro.e-technik.th-darmstadt.de (Michael N. Lipp)
- Subject: [A] Re: Adduser not on SLS??
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- In-Reply-To: mnor1@cs.aukuni.ac.nz's message of Wed, 23 Dec 1992 09: 43:38 GMT
- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 15:22:05 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec23.094338.3139@cs.aukuni.ac.nz> mnor1@cs.aukuni.ac.nz (Mark Hiro Norman ) writes:
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- In <BzLMzH.r9@undergrad.math.waterloo.edu> rkoo1@cantor.math.uwaterloo.ca (Raymond Koo) writes:
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- >Hello all. I have successfully installed Linux SLS 0.99 on my 486DX
- >The problem I'm having now is that I can't seem to add new users to the
- >system. I've tried using the menu/sysadmin operations but it can't seem to
- >find the adduser command.
- >I searched for that command but it did not come with the package.
- >How then am I supposed to add new users???? (I don't want to manually add
- >new users - it's a pain in the butt)
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- I had the same problem, but there's a command called 'useradd' which
- seems to perform an identical function, and has a man page to boot.
-
- adduser is in in the Fixes-directory/disk. Be careful: you have to install
- a[1-5], then Fixes/zafix.taz, then b[1-8], then Fixes/zbfix.taz...
-
- The reason is: the b-set installs the shadow password suite, the a-fix
- fixes the original (non shadow) /bin/passwd by installing a new one.
- If you install all fixes after having installed [a-x], you get a login
- that looks up your password in /etc/shadow, and a /bin/passwd that changes
- it in /etc/passwd.
-
- Michael
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