Cog, you are looking for the 'useradd' command. Some systems have adduser, others have useradd, and some systems have both. Something that may help in the future -- apropos user | grep add shows only one entry -- the right one. It doesn't find all the commands, since it only searches the short description of man pages, (eg, 'man yast' turns up empty) but it is sometimes right. apropos is a nice tool. (If the name is frustrating to you, you can also use 'man -k'. :) :) The last bit -- the vacation replies -- it is up to whoever configured their vacation to make sure it doesn't respond to mailing lists. So please, if/when you go on vacation, and you want to keep archives of this and other mailing lists, maybe use procmail, which makes it obvious to be skipping mailing lists, if the mailing lists are filtered into their own mailfile, or ensure to setup vacation properly. :) On Mon, Aug 02, 1999 at 08:47:44PM +0000, cogNiTioN wrote:

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

cog -- ,------------------------------, ================| S H U N A N T I O N L I N E |================ ================'------------------------------'================ == David M. Webster ++ aka cogNiTioN ++ cognition@bigfoot.com == ================================================================ == My New Domain <cognite.net> should be up and running soon. == ================================================================ == I use Linux every day to up my productivity - so up yours! == ================================================================

-- To unsubscribe, e-mail: suse-security-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands, e-mail: suse-security-help@suse.com

-- Seth Arnold | ICQ 3172483 | http://cswww.willamette.edu/~sarnold/ I prosecute unsolicited bulk emails, using the RealTime BlackHole List. You should too. Ask me how, or visit http://maps.vix.com/rbl/

Hello cog!

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. Simply use useradd. If you call it without any args, it will display a short help. Afterwards type 'passwd <username>' to set a password for the new user.

If you have many users, you might think of writing a script. But always remember: passwords MAY NOT handled as parameters for programs!!! But don't ask me if Yast will like that. Only for the possibility that you'll use one day Yast again to add users. But I think it should be able to manage that.

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) Well seen this way, it's really one! ;-) And also: Adding users ist an important job. If you don't do it correctly, this can als be a security hole.

Bye, Jan -- +-------------------+--------------------------------------------------------+ | Jan Theofel | rst Unternehmensberatungs- und Handelsgesellschaft mbH | | Webadministrator | Bahnhofstrasse 35, 71272 Renningen | | | Tel.: 07159/800-450 Fax: 07159/800-451 | +-------------------+--------------------------------------------------------+

Hi cog...., try 'useradd' :-) but before better check out 'man useradd'... rgds. Frank -----Urspr|ngliche Nachricht----- Von: cogNiTioN <cognition@bigfoot.com> An: <suse-security@suse.com> Gesendet: Montag, 2. August 1999 22:47 Betreff: [suse-security] New users, how?

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

cog -- ,------------------------------, ================| S H U N A N T I O N L I N E |================ ================'------------------------------'================ == David M. Webster ++ aka cogNiTioN ++ cognition@bigfoot.com == ================================================================ == My New Domain <cognite.net> should be up and running soon. == ================================================================ == I use Linux every day to up my productivity - so up yours! == ================================================================

-- To unsubscribe, e-mail: suse-security-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands, e-mail: suse-security-help@suse.com