adding users

[Les Mikesell]

On Tue, 2006-06-27 at 15:41 -0400, Mark Haney wrote:
> > 
> > useradd -u 515 -g 100 -c "The Name of the User" -d /home/directory 
> > UserAccountName
> > 
> > where -u is the user's unique id
> >             -g is the group to which he/she will belong
> > 
> > You just have to create the passwd for the user after this.
> > 
> > I do a "tail" on /etc/passwd so I can determine the next "-u" number to
> > use.
> > 
> > 
> This doesn't work either, I get the same hang as I do without the option.

Try running 'pwck' to see what is wrong with your passwd/shadow/group
files.

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  Les Mikesell
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