[K12OSN] user adding programs not working

Josiah Ritchie jritchie at bible.edu
Fri Aug 13 13:58:14 UTC 2004


In the mean time, you can do this on the command-line with useradd or
adduser command. My distro has both command yours might not. 

Use the command 'man useradd' or 'man adduser' for a bit of information
on the command options.

JSR/

On Fri, 2004-08-13 at 09:44, Doug Simpson wrote:
> Hello all!
> 
> I have several problems with my FC1 server and they may all be related.
> 
> Adding users. . .
> 
> When using webmin, when you try to add users, you cn put all the users' 
> information in there but then you click CREATE, it returns with a:
>  
> panic: realloc at ./user-lib.pl line 928.
> 
> I have tried versions of webmin all the way back to 1.13x and it does the 
> same thing but the line number is slightly different in each version.
> 
> So, since it is crunch time and I am needing *badly* to get users added 
> and am having 0 success with teh webmin list (error has been posted in 
> their forum for two weeks now with no responses) I decided to try to use 
> the Users and Groups thing from the RedHat menu.  It asks for the root 
> password (unless you are logged in as root already) and then disappears, 
> never to return.
> 
> So I went to a terminal console screen and ran redhat-config-users from 
> the commandline and got this:
> 
> [root at leopards archives]# redhat-config-users
> /usr/share/redhat-config-users/redhat-config-users: line 4:  3480 
> Segmentation fault      /usr/bin/python2.2 
> /usr/share/redhat-config-users/redhat-config-users.py
> 
> What could be wrong with this?  Could this be why webmin won't add users, 
> either?
> 
> I really need tog et this fixed ASAP (I've been fussing with it for weeks 
> now and need it working BADLY.
> 
> The last resort is to go try to learn how to use the commandline adduser 
> thing but I have never made that work successfully to get users in *nix 
> and samba at the same time. Plus, with the number of users I have to add, 
> webmin will work the best. . .
> 
> Please respond.
> 
> Thank you.
> 
> 
> Doug Simpson
> Technology Specialist
> DeQueen Public Schools
> DeQueen, AR 71832
> simpsond at leopards.k12.ar.us
> Tux for President!
> 
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