Date: Sat, 11 May 2002 23:58:16 -0400 From: Scott Lambert <lambert@lambertfam.org> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Adduser broken?? Message-ID: <20020512035816.GD35818@laptop.lambertfam.org> In-Reply-To: <3CDD2298.5090200@ezri.org> References: <20020511133453.GA55362@ns2.wananchi.com> <3CDD2298.5090200@ezri.org>
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On Sat, May 11, 2002 at 09:54:32AM -0400, Wade Majors wrote: > 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)]:" Also, if you don't want it to ask you the adduser configuration questions every time you add a users, run adduser with the -s flag. Then the first question is what you have been expecting it to be. -- Scott Lambert KC5MLE Unix SysAdmin lambert@lambertfam.org http://www.lambertfam.org/~lambert/resume.html 3 years Sr. SysAdmin experience with FreeBSD in small & medium size ISPs. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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