From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Dec 29 12:19:29 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 37D3F37B401 for ; Sun, 29 Dec 2002 12:19:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from sub21-156.member.dsl-only.net (sub21-156.member.dsl-only.net [63.105.21.156]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A3C0343EA9 for ; Sun, 29 Dec 2002 12:19:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nkinkade@sub21-156.member.dsl-only.net) Received: from nkinkade by sub21-156.member.dsl-only.net with local (Exim 4.10) id 18Sju6-0004Em-00 for FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.org; Sun, 29 Dec 2002 12:19:22 -0800 Date: Sun, 29 Dec 2002 12:19:22 -0800 From: Nathan Kinkade To: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: adduser Message-ID: <20021229201922.GJ55281@sub21-156.member.dsl-only.net> Reply-To: nkinkade@dsl-only.net Mail-Followup-To: FreeBSD Questions References: <20021229185302.GA291@raggedclown.net> <12925226463.20021229203158@dds.nl> <20021229195120.GA883@raggedclown.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i 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 Sun, Dec 29, 2002 at 09:02:50PM +0100, Norbert Koch wrote: > Cliff Sarginson writes: > > > I tried the simple act of adding a user to my system. > > It failed, repeatingly asking me for a user name I had already given. > > You should not have to have the brain of Einstein in order to put a new > > user on your system. > > You misunderstood the first part of adduser which is the configuration > part (done once). Here's a sample session from my machine: > > > So, you should keep the regexp at the beginning and set up a > adduser.conf according to your needs. The rest is mainly hitting the > return key. > > norbert. Cliff, Check out the man page for adduser(8). If you don't want it to run you through the setup each time, invoke it as `adduser -silent`. It will then simply ask you for the basics. By the way, although peoples responses may have seemed a little negative, they were somewhat warranted. They are right, you complained, but gave no specific information such that anyone could effectually help you. Here's an analogy: say I'm having a problem with my machine not booting properly - so I post to freebsd-questions and say, "WTF? I just installed FreeBSD 4.7 and when my machine boots it doesn't work! Someone please help me!" Obviously, a post such as this is not only annoying, but absolutely worthless. Even a non-computer literate person would be able to identify that the issue needs more clarification. This is what people are pointing out regarding your initial post. Think about your problem and then formulate a question to the list in a manner that will elucidate your problem to people who are, in fact, not sitting at your terminal. For example, you could have posted some snippets from the command. You say "repeatedly". Does "repeatedly" mean 2 times? 5 times? 10 times? An endless loop? Was the user eventually added? Had you read the man page? Exactly how did you invoke adduser? Nathan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message