From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 22 10:14:26 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from nebula.anchoragerescue.org (115-7-237-24-cable.anchorageak.net [24.237.7.115]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D25737B41B for ; Fri, 22 Mar 2002 10:14:12 -0800 (PST) Received: from there (galaxy.anchoragerescue.org [24.237.7.95]) by nebula.anchoragerescue.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8156188; Fri, 22 Mar 2002 09:14:02 -0900 (AKST) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Beech Rintoul To: Chris Collins , questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: adduser problem Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2002 09:14:02 -0900 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3] References: <20020322130315.H5980-100000@bsduser.ca> In-Reply-To: <20020322130315.H5980-100000@bsduser.ca> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-Id: <20020322181402.8156188@nebula.anchoragerescue.org> 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 Friday 22 March 2002 09:06 am, 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/ > Enter username [tst]: test > Username doesn't match the regexp /tst/ > Enter username [tst]: test > Username doesn't match the regexp /tst/ > Enter username [tst]: tst > Please enter a username > Enter username [tst]: tst > Please enter a username > Enter username [tst]: > > > Do anybody have any ideas why this is not working. > > > Chris At the first regexp prompt just hit enter. That is not for entering a username, it's for setting up what characters are accepted in a username. I agree it's very confusing, that change bit me in the butt a few days back. Beech -- ------------------------------------------------------------------- Beech Rintoul - IT Manager - Instructor - akbeech@anchoragerescue.org /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | Anchorage Gospel Rescue Mission \ / - NO HTML/RTF in e-mail | P.O. Box 230510 X - NO Word docs in e-mail | Anchorage, AK 99523-0510 / \ ----------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message