Try adduser -G users lata
May be the group "lata" does not exist as you adding the new user. As I know by default debian would not create individual group for new user. Regards, Ming On Sun, Nov 07, 2004 at 07:07:00PM -0600, Ramasubramanian Ramesh wrote: > Hi, > > I have not changed passwd or added user for quite some time. This has > been the case across several apt-get upgrades. Finally when I got to a > point I wanted to setup an account, I ran into the following difficulty. > > lata [root] 54 > adduser lata > Adding user lata... > Adding new group lata (1002). > Adding new user lata (1002) with group lata. > Creating home directory /home/lata. > Copying files from /etc/skel > passwd: Authentication token manipulation error > adduser: `/usr/bin/passwd lata' returned error code 10. Aborting. > Cleaning up. > Removing directory `/home/lata' > Removing user `lata'. > Removing group `lata'. > groupdel: group lata does not exist > > I suspect one of the upgrades have subtly changed something. I am not > sure what it is. All other things (that I tried) seem to work. Can you > tell me what is broken? How to fix it? > > Thanks and Regards > Ramesh > > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
