From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Dec 29 13: 8:30 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 E23CE37B401 for ; Sun, 29 Dec 2002 13:08:29 -0800 (PST) Received: from 1nova.com (heorot.1nova.com [63.105.24.23]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7F91943ED1 for ; Sun, 29 Dec 2002 13:08:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from hamellr@heorot.1nova.com) Received: by 1nova.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 37C5A18FB; Sun, 29 Dec 2002 14:12:49 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by 1nova.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2F03018FA; Sun, 29 Dec 2002 14:12:49 -0800 (PST) Date: Sun, 29 Dec 2002 14:12:49 -0800 (PST) From: Rick Hamell To: Cliff Sarginson Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: adduser In-Reply-To: <20021229195120.GA883@raggedclown.net> 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 > Negative PR ? > I do my best to promote it. > That does not mean being uncritical. > I tried the simple act of adding a user to my system. > It failed, repeatingly asking me for a user name I had already given. Look it /etc/adduser.conf remove the user name there and leave that line blank. I've run into the same issue until I realized it was setup so that you could force user names to have a part in common. Rick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message