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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!pipex!lyra.csx.cam.ac.uk!sunsite.doc.ic.ac.uk!cc.ic.ac.uk!j.grinter From: j.grinter@ic.ac.uk (James R Grinter) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: NetBSD --> Help for a stupid user Date: 20 Jan 1995 17:35:33 GMT Organization: Imperial College of STM, London, UK Lines: 25 Message-ID: <J.GRINTER.95Jan20173533@orchard.cc.ic.ac.uk> References: <D2nt5M.5wn@pnfi.forestry.ca> <3fn12m$g7d@sundog.tiac.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: microlab.cc.ic.ac.uk In-reply-to: umar@tiac.net's message of 20 Jan 1995 00:45:10 GMT In article <3fn12m$g7d@sundog.tiac.net> umar@tiac.net (Rob Landry) writes: borgan@alf.pnfi.forestry.ca (Bryan Organ) writes: >As another small, but annoying little development ... for some reason, I >can not seem to be able to add a $#@! user. Even several sys. admins here >have not been able to add a user. Am I missing something, or is it actually >harder than it looks . . . run vipw... this makes the updates to the shadow password file and rebuilds databases. Yes there are scripts to do this automatically, no I don't have one but people often post pointers to them (someone recently said there's some Tcl/Tk stuff). I create a user using vipw, then create a home directory for him. He can't create files in his home directory, so I have to chmod 777 it. I've assigned create & *chown* home dir to his user..., then chmod 700 the home dir. I did write a script do to this bit, and to copy across the .skel files from /usr/share/... him to group 0-- "wheel", yet he can't su root (it says he's not in the assign to a different group, and then add to the wheel group (vi /etc/group). James.