On Monday 14 May 2001 17:45, you wrote:
On Mon, 14 May 2001, dieter Roelants wrote:
On Mon, 14 May 2001, Tor Sigurdsson wrote:
Or for the gurus ;-)
useradd -u 501 -g 100 -m -k /etc/skel -s /bin/bash -d /home/newuser -c 'a new user' newuser
Or for the freaks: :)
pico /etc/passwd ;pico /etc/shadow ;mkdir /home/newuser ;chown newuser.users /home/newuser ;su - newuser -> passwd
Hmm, as root, you can simply do a "passwd <newuser>" to set another user's password. And you should also do the following:
cp -av /etc/skel /home/newuser ; chown -R newuser.users /home/newuser
Bye, LenZ
All right you guys.. Enough is enough.. ;-) I now have three or four messages telling me how to create the new user.. And as each one comes through I get more and more confused.. Of course, I'm also learning a bunch too!! Thanks Mike -- Powered by SuSE 7.1, Kernel 2.4.4 KDE2.1.1 For a great linux portal try http://www.freezer-burn.org