Comment # 3 on bug 1191189 from Ian Powell

(In reply to Ancor Gonzalez Sosa from comment #2)
> The file /etc/default/useradd was recently dropped from the shadow package
> and YaST was not prepared for that. See bug#1190864 for some details.
> 
> The bright side is that we are just right now working to improve yast2-users
> to handle that situation better (by fully relying on "useradd" and whatever
> mechanisms it implements now or in the future).
> 
> As a temporary workaround, you can run this once and I think it will
> generate the file yast2-users expects:
> 
> > useradd -D -b /home

Thanks.  I added the defaults manually and let me create a valid user