From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 22 10:22:49 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail12.speakeasy.net (mail12.speakeasy.net [216.254.0.212]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 39C4637B400 for ; Fri, 22 Mar 2002 10:22:43 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 19523 invoked from network); 22 Mar 2002 18:22:42 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO helios.dub.net) ([216.27.176.75]) (envelope-sender ) by mail12.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 22 Mar 2002 18:22:42 -0000 Received: by helios.dub.net (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 0FF66312E; Fri, 22 Mar 2002 10:22:42 -0800 (PST) Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2002 10:22:41 -0800 From: Jim Mock To: Chris Collins Cc: Ceri , questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: adduser problem Message-ID: <20020322182241.GA97991@helios.dub.net> Reply-To: mij@soupnazi.org References: <20020322181130.GB33056@submonkey.net> <20020322131356.V5980-100000@bsduser.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020322131356.V5980-100000@bsduser.ca> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 22 Mar 2002 at 13:19:29 -0500, Chris Collins wrote: > Well I gave that a shot with no luck. I did not have this problem > until I did a cvsup the lastweek. I did one again yesterday to make > sure nothing was messed-up. > > bsduser# adduser -config_create > bsduser# adduser > Use option ``-silent'' if you don't want to see all warnings and > questions. > > Check /etc/shells > Check /etc/master.passwd > Check /etc/group > Usernames must match regular expression: > [^[a-z0-9_][a-z0-9_-]*$]: test ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Don't enter test there. Just hit enter. It's asking you for the regular expression to use, not the username. - jim -- jim mock http://soupnazi.org/ | jim@FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message