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Old 11-01-2006, 07:54 PM   #1
aengelius
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Exclamation Having trouble creating users in Zenwalk


Hello (Im seriously fresh to linux, but I managed to install it)

So, now I'm currently logged in as root and trying to create users as well as groups. I must be doing something wrong because I can't see any users or groups being created.

Creating users:

After I'm finished with filling in the information the first time, I end up with an overview of the information on the user I've entered. There's two buttons, "Back" and "Ok". Where is the finished button? If I just press back and try to find the user, I just don't find it. And if I press "ok", I just get to input the information for the line marked in the overview again. Same situation with groups.

*noob*
 
Old 11-02-2006, 07:09 AM   #2
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you should found it in "list users" ...
Did you put upercase or special characteres ? they're forbidden in unix accounts. so the acount is never created. (new version of userconfig warn about it).

Try with only lowercase, and upgrade system-tools ("netpkg system-tools" as root)
 
Old 11-02-2006, 08:44 AM   #3
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Ah

Aah.

The problem is probably me using uppercase in the words, hehe. Thanks for the tip! Gonna try it out.
 
Old 11-02-2006, 06:53 PM   #4
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try the slackware cli command addusr as root.this always works.hope this helps the zen.
 
Old 11-03-2006, 01:07 PM   #5
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It worked!

Was just me writing usernames with uppercap characters.
 
Old 11-11-2006, 05:41 AM   #6
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PLease run userconfig as root, then it will work as expected

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