Date: Sun, 29 Dec 2002 13:26:34 -0800 From: "Brian" <bri@sonicboom.org> To: "Rick Hamell" <hamellr@heorot.1nova.com>, "Cliff Sarginson" <cls@raggedclown.net> Cc: "FreeBSD Questions" <FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: adduser Message-ID: <030c01c2af80$f7405ba0$3224200a@me3> References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0212291411461.53034-100000@heorot.1nova.com>
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One thing worth noting, is that in my experience, it differs from the linux
version. In Linux you just adduser username, then passwd username and youre
in business. In Fbsd, the easiest way is to just type adduser without other
args and answer the questions.
Bri
----- Original Message -----
From: "Rick Hamell" <hamellr@heorot.1nova.com>
To: "Cliff Sarginson" <cls@raggedclown.net>
Cc: "FreeBSD Questions" <FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Sent: Sunday, December 29, 2002 2:12 PM
Subject: Re: adduser
>
> > Negative PR ?
> > I do my best to promote it.
> > That does not mean being uncritical.
> > 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.
>
> Look it /etc/adduser.conf remove the user name there and leave that line
> blank. I've run into the same issue until I realized it was setup so that
> you could force user names to have a part in common.
>
> Rick
>
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