From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jul 10 09:42:07 2004 Return-Path: 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 0DEC516A4CE for ; Sat, 10 Jul 2004 09:42:07 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.tpgi.com.au (mail.tpgi.com.au [203.12.160.58]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 493BC43D1F for ; Sat, 10 Jul 2004 09:42:06 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from agh@tpg.com.au) Received: from [192.168.0.4] (220-244-72-6.tpgi.com.au [220.244.72.6]) by mail.tpgi.com.au (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i6A9g4dG014122; Sat, 10 Jul 2004 19:42:04 +1000 From: "Alastair G. Hogge" To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, jammet@swbell.net Date: Sat, 10 Jul 2004 19:42:17 +1000 User-Agent: KMail/1.6.2 References: <1089449568.236.17.camel@Desolation> In-Reply-To: <1089449568.236.17.camel@Desolation> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200407101942.17628.agh@tpg.com.au> X-TPG-Antivirus: Passed Subject: Re: OK i feel stupid about this noob question but.... X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 10 Jul 2004 09:42:07 -0000 On Saturday 10 July 2004 18:52, Jammet wrote: > I dont know whats wrong with me but for some reason i cant add users to > my system. I go through the whole bit of adduser -s but it asks "user > names must match reguilar expressions [regext] " ... I dont even > remember that happening when i use to add users or i might just be going > insane, anyways i put in regext or the username or something but when i > finaly get through the other 4 questions on there and get to acually try > to add the user it says it must follow the expression ... I decided to > beat my head agenst my desk to see if i could knock something lose, > anyone wanna help with this? i have added users before ( back when i > first got everything installed about 2 years ago) and have not really > needed to since, but now im trying again.. Ummm. Do you have a /etc/adduser file? Maybe this file is corrupt, try moving it and then run adduser again. If I remember correctly the first run thru of adduser stores some settings on how root likes to add users, such as name limitations/expressions. Someone might have added an user and changed the "internal" settings or something. Also try adding a user thru the sysinstall interface. -Alastair