How do I create new account for my linux box

jbeedham · 08-18-2003, 10:34 PM

Time for another

question from me...I am in the middle of trying to resolve another problem relating to my kde and xmms...see this thread if you are interested:

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...threadid=83184

It was suggested I create a new user account for my Mandrake 9.0. Now I have no idea how to do this. I'm sure this is quite easy to do so I am hoping someone can point me in the direction of how to do it.

darthtux · 08-18-2003, 10:48 PM

The command
adduser
as root of course :-)

MasterC · 08-18-2003, 10:49 PM

In your Mandrake Control Center, OR your KDE Control Center, you should find places to add a user, however...

You can ALWAYS use the command line

As root:
useradd -d users dave

Assuming you want to add a user 'dave' and have his default group be users.

See:
man useradd

For more info

Cool

Mathieu · 08-18-2003, 10:52 PM

In Mandrake, the GUI tool for managing users is called userdrake.

darthtux · 08-18-2003, 10:53 PM

I guess adduser was the old command. I should have done a
ls -l
on it :-)
adduser in Red Hat is a symbolic link to useradd.

oni0n56 · 08-18-2003, 11:47 PM

you can also press alt + f2 [alt and f2 at the same time] .. that gets you the run prompt... and then type userdrake ... or type userdrake in a terminal.. same thing

oni0n56 · 08-18-2003, 11:48 PM

oops somebody already said that :-p sorry didnt see

MasterC · 08-18-2003, 11:53 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by darthtux
I guess adduser was the old command. I should have done a
ls -l
on it :-)
adduser in Red Hat is a symbolic link to useradd.

Actually, on a lot of distros I think that is true, however on Slackware adduser is a script that takes you through the options in useradd, asking what you want. Great tool IMHO

Cool

jbeedham · 08-22-2003, 01:28 AM

I tried both of your ideas but have run into trouble. When I try to load the userdrake it gives me an error. When I try to do it from the command prompt it gives me error. The error is pretty much the same in both places:

vipw lockfile (/etc/ptmp) is present!

What should I do?

MasterC · 08-22-2003, 08:17 AM

Moving to the Mandrake Forum

Cool

Bebo · 08-22-2003, 08:22 AM

I've also had this thing with the /etc/ptmp being present. I read somewhere that this is bug, and it is no problem to remove it - I've done this myself a number of times without any repercussions