From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Dec 29 13:26:16 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 0E5AD37B401 for ; Sun, 29 Dec 2002 13:26:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from entwistle.sonicboom.org (node-423a3b1b-san-onnet.worldcom.com [66.58.59.27]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ACACB43EE6 for ; Sun, 29 Dec 2002 13:26:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bri@sonicboom.org) Received: from me3 (gateway.sonicboom.org [66.58.59.29]) by entwistle.sonicboom.org (8.12.6/8.12.6) with SMTP id gBTLQ1xd027240; Sun, 29 Dec 2002 13:26:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bri@sonicboom.org) Message-ID: <030c01c2af80$f7405ba0$3224200a@me3> From: "Brian" To: "Rick Hamell" , "Cliff Sarginson" Cc: "FreeBSD Questions" References: Subject: Re: adduser Date: Sun, 29 Dec 2002 13:26:34 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1106 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 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 One thing worth noting, is that in my experience, it differs from the linux version. In Linux you just adduser username, then passwd username and youre in business. In Fbsd, the easiest way is to just type adduser without other args and answer the questions. Bri ----- Original Message ----- From: "Rick Hamell" To: "Cliff Sarginson" Cc: "FreeBSD Questions" Sent: Sunday, December 29, 2002 2:12 PM Subject: Re: adduser > > > 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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message