Is there a built-in program to add new users and setup the /home/.<user> directory. Since the dcopserver took a dump (failed) on me I'd like to create a new user account/dir to use. Any suggestions or HOWTO's? P.S. If someone can tell me how to fix the dcopserver, since now the /home/curtis dir is now the /home/curtis file (what used to be the dir /curtis is now a file 'curtis'). I would like to fix this because all my /home/curtis directory was setup the way I liked it. Thanx, Curtis Rey
On 13-May-2001 Curtis Rey wrote:
Is there a built-in program to add new users and setup the /home/.<user> directory. Since the dcopserver took a dump (failed) on me I'd like to create a new user account/dir to use. Any suggestions or HOWTO's?
P.S. If someone can tell me how to fix the dcopserver, since now the /home/curtis dir is now the /home/curtis file (what used to be the dir /curtis is now a file 'curtis'). I would like to fix this because all my /home/curtis directory was setup the way I liked it.
Thanx, Curtis Rey
Hi Curtis, To add a new user. yast -> System Administration -> User administration Regards, Graham Smith ----------------------------------
On Sun, May 13, Graham Smith wrote:
To add a new user.
yast -> System Administration -> User administration
Or for the power-users: "yast --mask user --autoexit" See "yast --help" for more helpful shortcuts. Bye, LenZ -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Lenz Grimmer SuSE GmbH mailto:grimmer@suse.de Schanzaeckerstr. 10 http://www.suse.de/~grimmer/ 90443 Nuernberg, Germany Windows is a real pane ;{
On Sun, May 13, Graham Smith wrote:
To add a new user.
yast -> System Administration -> User administration
Or for the power-users: "yast --mask user --autoexit" See "yast --help" for more helpful shortcuts.
Or for the gurus ;-) useradd -u 501 -g 100 -m -k /etc/skel -s /bin/bash -d /home/newuser -c 'a new user' newuser -tosi
Bye, LenZ
--- Tor Sigurdsson
On Sun, May 13, Graham Smith wrote:
To add a new user.
yast -> System Administration -> User administration
Or for the power-users: "yast --mask user --autoexit" See "yast --help" for more helpful shortcuts.
Or for the gurus ;-)
useradd -u 501 -g 100 -m -k /etc/skel -s /bin/bash -d /home/newuser -c 'a new user' newuser
-tosi
Bye, LenZ
Do we have adduser? :) There is a significant difference between adduser and useradd in OpenBSD... I haven't looked this up in Linux yet. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/
Ok, I give up. I have learned alot. But it has become apparent the my fs is getting hosed by the hour - flakier and flakier. There are more files and directories that are starting to getting strange owner and grp properties assigned at random. I think Tor was write - my fs looks as if its getting corrupt. My recommendation is that you avoid installs of Gnome if not proficient with Linux. The damn things is strange. Maybe the Ximian release will be more stable. This happened after installing Gnome, medusa is always idled in the background. Network performance has gone down the tubes and I sense a sys wide crash comming on. Luckily, I am using Linux to learn so I can kick the M$ habit. I have tried to solve the problem but have stumped many expereinced user. Tor and the people at the Madison LUG (based out of the Univerisity of Wisconsin Comp Sci dept) think that my fs is corrupt and I have to agree. It's only a matter of time 'till it takes a major Sh^t and fails. So, I will re-install my OS. See you all in a couple of hours and thank you all for the advice Sincerely, Curtis Rey
At 01:56 AM 5/13/2001 -0500, Curtis Rey wrote:
Is there a built-in program to add new users and setup the /home/.<user> directory. Since the dcopserver took a dump (failed) on me I'd like to create a new user account/dir to use. Any suggestions or HOWTO's? fire up yast an go to administration, there is an add new user menu choice. it does what your wanting
jack Jack Malone jack@malone.tyler.com http://www.ballistic.com/~jemalone Luke 4:18-19 "The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners and recovery of sight for the blind, to release the oppressed, to proclaim the year of the Lord's favor." (NIV)
Question? The file /home/curtis (formerly the directory /home/curtis) won't let me delete it, remove, do a chown, chmod, etc... No matter whether I login as "Root" or the user "curtis". I can't get rid of the silly thing (and I'm getting paranoid - "was I hacked?") When ever I try to change its say that I dont have the permission/authority. Under "Ownership" it lists the user as "???" and the group as "446" (and I have been unable to figure what group 448 is). How can I change this or get rid of the file /home/curtis (formerly the home directory /home/curtis)? On Sunday 13 May 2001 07:34, Jack Malone wrote:
At 01:56 AM 5/13/2001 -0500, Curtis Rey wrote:
Is there a built-in program to add new users and setup the /home/.<user> directory. Since the dcopserver took a dump (failed) on me I'd like to create a new user account/dir to use. Any suggestions or HOWTO's?
fire up yast an go to administration, there is an add new user menu choice. it does what your wanting
jack Jack Malone jack@malone.tyler.com http://www.ballistic.com/~jemalone
Luke 4:18-19 "The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners and recovery of sight for the blind, to release the oppressed, to proclaim the year of the Lord's favor." (NIV)
On Sun, May 13, 2001 at 01:42:55PM -0500, Curtis Rey wrote:
Question? The file /home/curtis (formerly the directory /home/curtis) won't let me delete it, remove, do a chown, chmod, etc... No matter whether I login as "Root" or the user "curtis". I can't get rid of the silly thing (and I'm getting paranoid - "was I hacked?") When ever I try to change its say that I dont have the permission/authority. Under "Ownership" it lists the user as "???" and the group as "446" (and I have been unable to figure what group 448 is). How can I change this or get rid of the file /home/curtis (formerly the home directory /home/curtis)?
Login as root and do ls -l / from command prompt. Look at the permissions of /home. To delete a file from directory you need write access to the directory. If you as root have no write permission to /home, just add it with chmod u+w /home (I assume /home is owned by root). Then you shod be able to do rm /home/curtis -Kastus
I've got a sneaky feeling that the problem you have with dcopserver is due to you having lost control over your home directory. I would suggest checking /etc/passwd to see what your user id is and your group id. Then do a chown -R "whatever your user id is" /home/curtis, followed by chgrp -R "whatever your group id is" /home/curtis. I have had similar problems because I don't use the default user id and group id, and the steps I mentioned above worked for me. Good luck Eddie On Sunday 13 May 2001 7:56 am, Curtis Rey wrote:
Is there a built-in program to add new users and setup the /home/.<user> directory. Since the dcopserver took a dump (failed) on me I'd like to create a new user account/dir to use. Any suggestions or HOWTO's?
P.S. If someone can tell me how to fix the dcopserver, since now the /home/curtis dir is now the /home/curtis file (what used to be the dir /curtis is now a file 'curtis'). I would like to fix this because all my /home/curtis directory was setup the way I liked it.
Thanx, Curtis Rey
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Curtis Rey -
dieter＠FreeBSD.rave.org -
Eddie Howson -
Graham Smith -
Jack Malone -
Konstantin (Kastus) Shchuka -
Lenz Grimmer -
Raul Gutierrez Segales -
Tor Sigurdsson -
Yuri K