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Adding users to system

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http://serverfault.com – I usually add a user using adduser command. But are there any other steps to add a user to a system without using useradd/adduser? how can we change the default uid range? (HowTos)

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Submitted by taskli on 08/19/2011

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adduser problem 41 weeks 8 hours ago

Thanks for the reply, jjacky. Yes, as the topic name and my text states, I am using adduser. I know it is a shell script, and on the Debian systems I've worked on, adduser creates a group with the same name as the username, just like useradd does. I assumed that adduser populated its defaults from the login.defs file, but that seems not to be the case.

can't adduser on unix 39 weeks 6 days ago

When I enter sudo adduser git i get sudo: useradd: command not found

when I enter whereis adduser

I get /usr/sbin/adduser but I can't switch to it

root@431901-web1 [/usr/sbin]$ cd adduser bash: cd: adduser: Not a directory

when I do a ls I see it has an @ after it adduser@

what does the @ mean? is there any workaround? I have root access, but I'm not a pro unix guy...

Error creating ftp user 21 weeks 17 hours ago

I want to create ftp user using following command

[root@localhost ~]# sudo adduser -c'FTP USER Mac' -m mac123

but am getting the following error

adduser: cannot rewrite password file

Can anybody help me on this

http://fpaste.org/9ACa/

thanks in advance for any suggestions and help

VirtualBox: Win7 64 bit is host, 12.04 is guest. Trying to follow instructions at: http://www.liberiangeek.net/2012/05/...guest-machine/ Here's what I get in Terminal: advait@advait-VirtualBox:~$ sudo adduser vboxsf bash: Advait: No such file or directory advait@advait-VirtualBox:~$ sudo adduser Advait vboxsf [sudo] password for advait: adduser: The user `Advait' does not exist.

addgroup vs groupadd 31 weeks 1 day ago

I happen to know there is a slight difference between adduser and useradd. (i.e., adduser has additional features to useradd, such as creating a home directory.)

Then what is the relation between addgroup and groupadd? Is there a preferred way to create a group?

This doesn't work "adduser bperrotta dialout"

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Hello is there anyway in Centos to set up default quota for new user's ? On debian system i just edited QUOTAUSER in /etc/adduser.conf ?? [by Devan]

As the subject says, I'm trying to add a new user. When I run the command, it says the user already exists. But looking in /etc/passwd, /etc/group, and /etc/shadow shows that the user does not exist.

Running the command on my local machine works just fine.