Hi cog....,
try 'useradd' :-)
but before better check out 'man useradd'...
rgds.
Frank
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Von: cogNiTioN
I want to add a new user to my system (SuSE 5.2), but I don't want to use YAST to do it. How do I add a user manually? All the books seem to say that the adduser cmd is easy to use. I can't find the program.
I can manually add a user to the bottom of the /etc/passwd file, but then I have a problem with the passwords, and the shadow file doesn't have an entry for them.
Am I being thick, or is SuSE just different to other flavours of Linux?
P.S. This is a security issue, because suse-security is the only suse group I'm subscribed to, and also because at the moment I can add a user, but not a password for a user. (I think everyone can see the security problems with that)
Thanks
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