From owner-freebsd-stable Sat May 11 6:54:41 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from smtp-server6.tampabay.rr.com (smtp-server6.tampabay.rr.com [65.32.1.43]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7DD1C37B403 for ; Sat, 11 May 2002 06:54:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ezri.org (653212hfc167.tampabay.rr.com [65.32.12.167]) by smtp-server6.tampabay.rr.com (8.12.2/8.11.2) with ESMTP id g4BDsZDn017739; Sat, 11 May 2002 09:54:36 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <3CDD2298.5090200@ezri.org> Date: Sat, 11 May 2002 09:54:32 -0400 From: Wade Majors User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:0.9.4.1) Gecko/20020314 Netscape6/6.2.2 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Odhiambo Washington Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Adduser broken?? References: <20020511133453.GA55362@ns2.wananchi.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Odhiambo Washington wrote: > When you invoke it, it says: > > Usernames must match regex (shortened): > [^[a-z0-9_][a-z0-9_-]*$]: > > Then enter a username to add and it will continue to prompt you for username > till the cows come home ;-) It is not prompting you for a username. it is prompting you for a regex pattern. The default is what is in []'s. This is the configuration stage. Just press enter for the prompts after that (must use passwords, default shell, etc) until you get to the prompt that says "Enter username [(regex from above)]:" -Wade To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message