From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 22 10:11:50 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from relay3-gui.server.ntli.net (relay3-gui.server.ntli.net [194.168.4.200]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9D40D37B404 for ; Fri, 22 Mar 2002 10:11:46 -0800 (PST) Received: from pc4-card4-0-cust162.cdf.cable.ntl.com ([80.4.14.162] helo=rhadamanth.private.submonkey.net ident=mailnull) by relay3-gui.server.ntli.net with esmtp (Exim 3.03 #2) id 16oTVw-0000C7-00 for questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 22 Mar 2002 18:11:45 +0000 Received: from setantae by rhadamanth.private.submonkey.net with local (Exim 3.35 #1) id 16oTVi-0008hR-00; Fri, 22 Mar 2002 18:11:30 +0000 Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2002 18:11:30 +0000 From: Ceri To: Chris Collins Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: adduser problem Message-ID: <20020322181130.GB33056@submonkey.net> Mail-Followup-To: Ceri , Chris Collins , questions@freebsd.org References: <20020322130315.H5980-100000@bsduser.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020322130315.H5980-100000@bsduser.ca> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i 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 On Fri, Mar 22, 2002 at 01:06:18PM -0500, Chris Collins wrote: > Hello > > I seem to be having trouble adding a user with adduser. > > It keeps asking me for the username. > > Enter username [tst]: test > Username doesn't match the regexp /tst/ > Do anybody have any ideas why this is not working. Yup. When you ran adduser it asked you for defaults, and you didn't read the prompts carefully enough and thought you were adding the user :) Then for this question : Usernames must match regular expression: [^[a-z0-9_][a-z0-9_-]*$]: you typed "tst". Try running: adduser -config_create and setting the defaults again, then go back in and add your user. Ceri -- keep a mild groove on To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message