You should be able to use Yast2 as it simplifies it considerably, assuming you're not trying to create users programmatically. Greg Freemyer wrote:

Linux Guru's,

The way I want to setup my SuSE boxes, useradd is not working.

I have /etc/passwd bound to /config/etc/passwd (ie. mount --bind .....).

Doing a strace on useradd, I see it is failing because it creates /etc/passwd+ with the new user, then attempts a rename().

In my case, the rename is failing.

Does anyone know any pros/cons between me: writing a shell script to use instead of useradd getting the shadow srpm and changing useradd to work directly on /etc/passwd

If I write my own script, and there any files other than /etc/passwd, /etc/shadow, and /etc/skel I need to worry about?

Thanks Greg

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