From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 27 12:19:39 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5389F37B4C9 for ; Tue, 27 Aug 2002 12:19:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mailhub-1.iastate.edu (mailhub-1.iastate.edu [129.186.140.3]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0E5A843E3B for ; Tue, 27 Aug 2002 12:19:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from legg@iastate.edu) Received: from mailout-1.iastate.edu (mailout-1.iastate.edu [129.186.140.1]) by mailhub-1.iastate.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id OAA00940 for ; Tue, 27 Aug 2002 14:19:29 -0500 Received: from isua2.iastate.edu(129.186.1.202) by mailout-1.iastate.edu via csmap id 14082; Tue, 27 Aug 2002 14:27:49 -0500 (CDT) Received: from localhost (legg@localhost) by isua2.iastate.edu (8.8.8/8.8.5) with SMTP id OAA05627 for ; Tue, 27 Aug 2002 14:19:30 -0500 (CDT) Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2002 14:19:30 -0500 (CDT) From: Tim Legg To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: 4.6 Annoyances Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello, I just formatted my 4.4 and installed 4.6. There is a minor problem I am having with adduser where I get caugt into an endless loop where I can only ^C to escape. I scripted the scenario where I create a user called 'joe'. Note the default username is 'legg' from where I tried to install my own account as the first account. I can still add users via /stand/sysinstall, which I eventuall had to do to create the 'legg' account, but I have always preferred the speed and efficiency of adduser. Any comments? Thanks in advance... Script started on Tue Aug 27 14:07:38 2002 pc047113# adduser Use option ``-silent'' if you don't want to see all warnings and questions. Check /etc/shells Check /etc/master.passwd Check /etc/group Usernames must match regular expression: [legg]: joe Enter your default shell: csh date no sh tcsh [csh]: Your default shell is: csh -> /bin/csh Enter your default HOME partition: [/home]: Copy dotfiles from: /usr/share/skel no [/usr/share/skel]: Send message from file: /etc/adduser.message no [/etc/adduser.message]: Use passwords (y/n) [y]: Write your changes to /etc/adduser.conf? (y/n) [n]: Ok, let's go. Don't worry about mistakes. I will give you the chance later to correct any input. Enter username [joe]: Please enter a username Enter username [joe]: joe Please enter a username Enter username [joe]: joe Please enter a username Enter username [joe]: ^C pc047113# exit exit Script done on Tue Aug 27 14:08:31 2002 Timothy D Legg legg@iastate.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message