Re: Unexpected change in behavior for adduser

2023-06-16 Thread David Wright
I am using the official python docker image which builds out of Bullseye > (btw, this happens in bookworm too). Until yesterday when I ran `adduser > --system nonroot` it would populate `$HOME` with `/home/notroot/`. Today I > rebuilt the image and it is set to `/nonexistent`. Was this inte

Re: Unexpected change in behavior for adduser

2023-06-16 Thread tomas
I should report. > > I am using the official python docker image which builds out of Bullseye > (btw, this happens in bookworm too). Until yesterday when I ran `adduser > --system nonroot` it would populate `$HOME` with `/home/notroot/`. Today I > rebuilt the image and it is s

Unexpected change in behavior for adduser

2023-06-16 Thread Diego Fioravanti
(btw, this happens in bookworm too). Until yesterday when I ran `adduser --system nonroot` it would populate `$HOME` with `/home/notroot/`. Today I rebuilt the image and it is set to `/nonexistent`. Was this intentional or is it a bug? I cannot find any reference to this change anywhere but maybe I

Re: Adduser only one or. two users

2022-08-14 Thread DdB
Such an excellent advice! Thank you for having taken the time to post this. Yesterday, i was desperate after 24h of running in circles with a scripting problem. When i decided to post a question in here, it took me at least one hour to complete the writing and the gathering of information. Despite

Re: Adduser only one or. two users

2022-08-05 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Fri, Aug 05, 2022 at 11:05:50AM +0530, Ishaan Mahajan wrote: > Sorry for another email but this is what it looks like now - RUN sudo > adduser --shell $USERSHELLPATH --disabled-password $USERNAME && \ > However, I am still running into the same problem. You need to listen to

Re: Adduser only one or. two users

2022-08-04 Thread Ishaan Mahajan
Sorry for another email but this is what it looks like now - RUN sudo adduser --shell $USERSHELLPATH --disabled-password $USERNAME && \ However, I am still running into the same problem. Thanks, Ishaan On Thu, Aug 4, 2022 at 10:53 PM Dan Ritter wrote: > Ishaan Mahajan wr

Re: Adduser only one or. two users

2022-08-04 Thread tomas
On Thu, Aug 04, 2022 at 12:17:54PM -0600, Charles Curley wrote: > On Thu, 4 Aug 2022 13:23:11 -0400 > Dan Ritter wrote: > > > sudo adduser --shell $USERSHELLPATH --disabled-password --gecos "" > > $USERNAME > > > > That's your first command line

Re: Adduser only one or. two users

2022-08-04 Thread Charles Curley
On Thu, 4 Aug 2022 13:23:11 -0400 Dan Ritter wrote: > sudo adduser --shell $USERSHELLPATH --disabled-password --gecos "" > $USERNAME > > That's your first command line. --gecos expects a value. You are > literally supplying no value. > > Why don't you

Re: Adduser only one or. two users

2022-08-04 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Thu, Aug 04, 2022 at 01:24:04PM -0400, Cindy Sue Causey wrote: > On 8/4/22, Ishaan Mahajan wrote: > > Hi, > > > > This is the line I have got - RUN sudo adduser --shell $USERSHELLPATH > > --disabled-password --gecos "" $USERNAME && \ > &

Re: Adduser only one or. two users

2022-08-04 Thread Dan Ritter
Ishaan Mahajan wrote: > Hi, > > This is the line I have got - RUN sudo adduser --shell $USERSHELLPATH > --disabled-password --gecos "" $USERNAME && \ > echo "$USERNAME ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL" > /etc/sudoers.d/$USERNAME && \ > chmod 0

Re: Adduser only one or. two users

2022-08-04 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
On 8/4/22, Ishaan Mahajan wrote: > Hi, > > This is the line I have got - RUN sudo adduser --shell $USERSHELLPATH > --disabled-password --gecos "" $USERNAME && \ > echo "$USERNAME ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL" > /etc/sudoers.d/$USERNAME && \

Adduser only one or. two users

2022-08-04 Thread Ishaan Mahajan
Hi, This is the line I have got - RUN sudo adduser --shell $USERSHELLPATH --disabled-password --gecos "" $USERNAME && \ echo "$USERNAME ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL" > /etc/sudoers.d/$USERNAME && \ chmod 0440 /etc/sudoers.d/USERNAME However, I keep getting th

Re: sending authorized_keys to localhost from an account being created with adduser --disabled-password [was] Re: Need a tutorial

2016-09-24 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Sep 23, 2016 at 04:41:00PM +, Stephan Beck wrote: > Thank you very much, Tomás. glad to help. [...] > But once my user's (in your terminology, steph's) public key is in the > test account's authorized_keys file, user steph can login with

Re: sending authorized_keys to localhost from an account being created with adduser --disabled-password [was] Re: Need a tutorial

2016-09-23 Thread Stephan Beck
Hi Greg and Tomás (one mail for all to limit the load of this thread on the list) :-) Greg Wooledge: > On Fri, Sep 23, 2016 at 12:31:00PM +, Stephan Beck wrote: [...] > As user root: > > stephan@hostname:~$ sudo mkdir -p ~test/.ssh > stephan@hostname:~$ sudo sh -c 'cat ~stephan/.ssh/id_rsa.pu

Re: sending authorized_keys to localhost from an account being created with adduser --disabled-password [was] Re: Need a tutorial

2016-09-23 Thread Stephan Beck
Thank you very much, Tomás. to...@tuxteam.de: > On Fri, Sep 23, 2016 at 12:31:00PM +, Stephan Beck wrote: >> Hi >> to...@tuxteam.de: >>> On Thu, Sep 22, 2016 at 03:35:00PM +, Stephan Beck wrote: [...] >> I have created a new user account with >> addu

Re: sending authorized_keys to localhost from an account being created with adduser --disabled-password [was] Re: Need a tutorial

2016-09-23 Thread Stephan Beck
Stephan Beck: > Thanks, Greg. I trimmed your message just to let you know that it does > not work. To be clear: after having found my solution I did your test (only the test reproduced at the end of your message) and my solution does not work. Thanks Stephan

Re: sending authorized_keys to localhost from an account being created with adduser --disabled-password [was] Re: Need a tutorial

2016-09-23 Thread Stephan Beck
Thanks, Greg. I trimmed your message just to let you know that it does not work. Greg Wooledge: > On Fri, Sep 23, 2016 at 12:31:00PM +, Stephan Beck wrote: > As user stephan, to test that it works: > > stephan@hostname:~$ ssh test@localhost id > > If your username isn't actually "stephan",

Re: RESOLVED Re: sending authorized_keys to localhost from an account being created with adduser --disabled-password [was] Re: Need a tutorial

2016-09-23 Thread Stephan Beck
Hi, Stephan Beck: > Hi > > Stephan Beck: >> Hi >> >> to...@tuxteam.de: >>> On Thu, Sep 22, 2016 at 03:35:00PM +, Stephan Beck wrote: >>> >>> > >> How do I get this public key onto localhost? > > No need to reply, I'll send the answer to document my solution within > minutes. Solution (feel

Re: sending authorized_keys to localhost from an account being created with adduser --disabled-password [was] Re: Need a tutorial

2016-09-23 Thread tomas
d a solution and other chimed in with sage advice. > > > > Well, I have another one :-), a question, not a solution yet. > > > I have created a new user account with > adduser --disabled-password > What do I want to do? > I'd like to login to this account &quo

RESOLVED Re: sending authorized_keys to localhost from an account being created with adduser --disabled-password [was] Re: Need a tutorial

2016-09-23 Thread Stephan Beck
Hi Stephan Beck: > Hi > > to...@tuxteam.de: >> On Thu, Sep 22, 2016 at 03:35:00PM +, Stephan Beck wrote: >> >> > How do I get this public key onto localhost? No need to reply, I'll send the answer to document my solution within minutes. Stephan

Re: sending authorized_keys to localhost from an account being created with adduser --disabled-password [was] Re: Need a tutorial

2016-09-23 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Fri, Sep 23, 2016 at 12:31:00PM +, Stephan Beck wrote: > I have created a new user account with > adduser --disabled-password > What do I want to do? > I'd like to login to this account "test" from my normal user account by > ssh via pubkey authentication. My

sending authorized_keys to localhost from an account being created with adduser --disabled-password [was] Re: Need a tutorial

2016-09-23 Thread Stephan Beck
ho has a special question > > No need to be sorry :-) Fine! :-) > > But I see you found a solution and other chimed in with sage advice. > Well, I have another one :-), a question, not a solution yet. I have created a new user account with adduser --disabled-password What do I want to

Re: DON'T REPLY TO THIS THREAD: adduser (with crypted/random) password]

2013-05-17 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Friday 17 May 2013 20:04:44 Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Vi, 17 mai 13, 20:43:40, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > On Fri, 2013-05-17 at 21:06 +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > > On Vi, 17 mai 13, 16:49:24, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > > > What the f... > > > > > > > > I got this, after sending my reply (to the

Re: DON'T REPLY TO THIS THREAD: adduser (with crypted/random) password]

2013-05-17 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Vi, 17 mai 13, 20:43:40, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Fri, 2013-05-17 at 21:06 +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > On Vi, 17 mai 13, 16:49:24, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > > What the f... > > > > > > I got this, after sending my reply (to the list only) to the request > > > from Pol Hallen : > > > > [sni

Re: DON'T REPLY TO THIS THREAD: adduser (with crypted/random) password]

2013-05-17 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Fri, 2013-05-17 at 21:06 +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Vi, 17 mai 13, 16:49:24, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > What the f... > > > > I got this, after sending my reply (to the list only) to the request > > from Pol Hallen : > > [snip] > > Please contact the listmasters about such issues. Probab

Re: DON'T REPLY TO THIS THREAD: adduser (with crypted/random) password]

2013-05-17 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Vi, 17 mai 13, 16:49:24, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > What the f... > > I got this, after sending my reply (to the list only) to the request > from Pol Hallen : [snip] Please contact the listmasters about such issues. Probably some subscriber has a misconfigured mail server and has to be unsubscri

Re: DON'T REPLY TO THIS THREAD: adduser (with crypted/random) password]

2013-05-17 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Fri, 2013-05-17 at 17:37 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > My apologies to the original poster. I didn't get this "spam" when I > replied to a thread about printers today, I got it only for this thread > and since the original poster (perhaps by accident) requested receipt, I > was suspicious. PS:

Re: DON'T REPLY TO THIS THREAD: adduser (with crypted/random) password]

2013-05-17 Thread Ralf Mardorf
My apologies to the original poster. I didn't get this "spam" when I replied to a thread about printers today, I got it only for this thread and since the original poster (perhaps by accident) requested receipt, I was suspicious. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: DON'T REPLY TO THIS THREAD: adduser (with crypted/random) password]

2013-05-17 Thread Lisi Reisz
I am getting these*, every time I post. I have told both boghofilter and Gmail that they atrer spam, but I am still getting them. :-( Lisi *_ This is the Postfix program at host smtp.aso.ee. I'm sorry to have to inform you that your message

Re: DON'T REPLY TO THIS THREAD: adduser (with crypted/random) password]

2013-05-17 Thread Tom Furie
On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 04:49:24PM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > What the f... > > I got this, after sending my reply (to the list only) to the request > from Pol Hallen : I received the same error replying to an unrelated thread, so I don't think this is a problem at Pol's mail host. Cheers, To

DON'T REPLY TO THIS THREAD: adduser (with crypted/random) password]

2013-05-17 Thread Ralf Mardorf
0300 (EEST) Final-Recipient: rfc822; jaanus.k...@eesti.ee Action: failed Status: 5.0.0 Diagnostic-Code: X-Postfix; mail forwarding loop for jaanus.k...@eesti.ee On Fri, 2013-05-17 at 14:21 +0200, Pol Hallen wrote: > Hi all :-) > > Is there a package to adduser with automatic random/crypted pass

OT: adduser (with crypted/random) password

2013-05-17 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Fri, 2013-05-17 at 14:21 +0200, Pol Hallen wrote: > Hi all :-) > > Is there a package to adduser with automatic random/crypted password? > > I can do an automatic script but if there's a package is better. > > thanks! > > Pol Sorry, I couldn't resist t

adduser (with crypted/random) password

2013-05-17 Thread Pol Hallen
Hi all :-) Is there a package to adduser with automatic random/crypted password? I can do an automatic script but if there's a package is better. thanks! Pol -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble?

Re: welcome mail (after adduser)

2013-05-13 Thread Terho Uotila
On Fri, 10 May 2013 17:17:42 +0200 Pol Hallen wrote: > What is the easy way to send a "welcome mail" after created a new > user? > Maybe mailx? mail -s "welcome message" recipient < welcome.txt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". T

Re: welcome mail (after adduser)

2013-05-11 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Vi, 10 mai 13, 17:17:42, Pol Hallen wrote: > Hi folks! > > What is the easy way to send a "welcome mail" after created a new user? This probably depends a lot on how users' mailboxes are setup and you haven't provided any information about that. Kind regards, Andrei -- http://wiki.debian.or

welcome mail (after adduser)

2013-05-10 Thread Pol Hallen
Hi folks! What is the easy way to send a "welcome mail" after created a new user? thanks! Pol -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201305101717.42233...@

Re: vim -- adduser vs useradd/usermod

2012-11-24 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On 11/25/12, Wolf Halton wrote: > right. > usermod makes changes to user. > useradd is not interactive, so makes an automated script for adding many > users more possible to write. including setting nonstandard home directory > or extra groups. > adduser is interactive but does

Re: vim -- adduser vs useradd/usermod

2012-11-24 Thread Wolf Halton
right. usermod makes changes to user. useradd is not interactive, so makes an automated script for adding many users more possible to write. including setting nonstandard home directory or extra groups. adduser is interactive but does not let you put a user in multiple groups, i don't

Re: vim -- adduser vs useradd/usermod

2012-11-24 Thread Osamu Aoki
and only name in a usr account to the > > > > groups > > > > file for printing. > > > > > > I would use, as super user: > > > > > > # usermod -Ga lp > > > > On Debian the 'adduser' tool should be used. Maybe

Re: [help-a-newb] Why nano (or was it pico) instead of vi for visudo? (was question about adduser)

2011-03-20 Thread Joel Rees
erk. Sorry, Doug. On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 2:21 PM, Joel Rees wrote: > Thanks for responding to the subject instead of the content, Tom. > > I swear, I must be getting too old for this. Or maybe I just have too > many questions to remember which one I'm asking. Oh. Either way, I'll > be lazy and b

Re: [help-a-newb] Why nano (or was it pico) instead of vi for visudo? (was question about adduser)

2011-03-20 Thread Doug
On 03/20/2011 10:15 PM, Tom H wrote: On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 8:30 PM, Joel Rees wrote: It's nano and the reason that nano's called by visudo (paradoxically) is that visudo calls "/usr/bin/editor" and the alternatives system maps it to "/usr/bin/nano". You can run visudo with "EDITOR=vi visudo"

Re: [help-a-newb] Why nano (or was it pico) instead of vi for visudo? (was question about adduser)

2011-03-20 Thread Tom H
On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 8:30 PM, Joel Rees wrote: It's nano and the reason that nano's called by visudo (paradoxically) is that visudo calls "/usr/bin/editor" and the alternatives system maps it to "/usr/bin/nano". You can run visudo with "EDITOR=vi visudo" if you just want vi in this instance.

Fwd: [help-a-newb] Why nano (or was it pico) instead of vi for visudo? (was question about adduser)

2011-03-20 Thread Joel Rees
(Still forgetting and hitting the reply button instead of reply-all followed by manually clearing the to: field. Sorry, Rob.) -- Forwarded message -- From: Joel Rees Date: Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 9:20 AM Subject: Re: [help-a-newb] adduser okay? (problem with authenticating with gui

Re: [help-a-newb] adduser okay? (problem with authenticating with gui users-groups manager)

2011-03-20 Thread Tom H
On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 8:28 AM, Rob Owens wrote: > On Sat, Mar 19, 2011 at 10:19:45PM +0900, Joel Rees wrote: >> >> Speaking of which, are the command line user/group management tools >> (adduser, etc.) going to leave something undone if I use them instead? >> Or, if I

Re: [help-a-newb] adduser okay? (problem with authenticating with gui users-groups manager)

2011-03-20 Thread Klistvud
Dne, 20. 03. 2011 13:28:28 je Rob Owens napisal(a): Last time I used it, adduser did not add a user to all the default groups that the GUI does. You'll need to do that manually. -Rob +1 I've noticed that too. -- Cheerio, Klistvud

Re: [help-a-newb] adduser okay? (problem with authenticating with gui users-groups manager)

2011-03-20 Thread Rob Owens
ction, in a gnome session. > > > > I should have got the name of the utility while I had squeeze booted. > > I'd be posting this from a squeeze account if I could make a non-admin > > account to do it with. > > > > Speaking of which, are the command line

Re: [help-a-newb] adduser okay? (problem with authenticating with gui users-groups manager)

2011-03-19 Thread Brad Alexander
; > Speaking of which, are the command line user/group management tools > > (adduser, etc.) going to leave something undone if I use them instead? > > Or, if I use vipw and hand-copy the bash skeleton, for a user, am I > > going to regret it later? > > AFAIK adduses is

Re: [help-a-newb] adduser okay? (problem with authenticating with gui users-groups manager)

2011-03-19 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sb, 19 mar 11, 20:35:28, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Sb, 19 mar 11, 22:19:45, Joel Rees wrote: > > > > Speaking of which, are the command line user/group management tools > > (adduser, etc.) going to leave something undone if I use them instead? > > Or, if I use

Re: [help-a-newb] adduser okay? (problem with authenticating with gui users-groups manager)

2011-03-19 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sb, 19 mar 11, 22:19:45, Joel Rees wrote: > > Speaking of which, are the command line user/group management tools > (adduser, etc.) going to leave something undone if I use them instead? > Or, if I use vipw and hand-copy the bash skeleton, for a user, am I > going to regret i

Re: [help-a-newb] adduser okay? (problem with authenticating with gui users-groups manager)

2011-03-19 Thread Joel Rees
e posting this from a squeeze account if I could make a non-admin > account to do it with. > Speaking of which, are the command line user/group management tools (adduser, etc.) going to leave something undone if I use them instead? Or, if I use vipw and hand-copy the bash skeleton, fo

adduser / chfn asking for root password

2007-11-29 Thread Pigeon
When I try to add a new user, adduser is calling chfn in such a way as to cause chfn to ask for the root password. Output from adduser looks like this: # adduser test Adding user test' ... Adding new group test' (1010) ... Adding new user test' (1010) with group test' ... The

Re: adduser not interactive

2007-10-12 Thread Juha Tuuna
On Friday, 12. October 2007 15:24, Florian Lindner wrote: > Hello, > is it possible to use adduser non interactive? I've searched the manpage > but found no switch. > I know about useradd but I've read that adduser tries to be more Debian > like. > > Thanks, > >

adduser not interactive

2007-10-12 Thread Florian Lindner
Hello, is it possible to use adduser non interactive? I've searched the manpage but found no switch. I know about useradd but I've read that adduser tries to be more Debian like. Thanks, Florian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe&quo

Re: adduser

2007-08-01 Thread Oleg Verych
`/etc/passwd' may have wrong owner. But this can be fixed, if i will re-add appropriate user myself. I would like to supply my installation options to packages i need, but like you've said, more flexible and easy installation process will be a big step forward. Anyway to pull and then u

Re: adduser

2007-07-31 Thread Bob Proulx
group --system postdrop chown postfix:postdrop $MAILDROP fi Example from the bind9 postinst script: getent group bind >/dev/null 2>&1 || addgroup --system bind getent passwd bind >/dev/null 2>&1 || adduser --system --home /var/cache/bind --no-create

adduser

2007-07-26 Thread Oleg Verych
* Bob Proulx > > Oleg Verych wrote: >> I'm just a user, but developers seem to have some problems in the >> past: #208848. > > But Bug#208848 says that cron needed a dependency upon adduser, which > it now has because of that bug. Reading that bug this was > sp

Re: adduser kills sound pt. 3

2007-07-26 Thread Bob Proulx
Oleg Verych wrote: > Bob Proulx wrote: > I'm just a user, but developers seem to have some problems in the > past: #208848. But Bug#208848 says that cron needed a dependency upon adduser, which it now has because of that bug. Reading that bug this was specifically for build

Re: adduser kills sound pt. 3

2007-07-26 Thread Oleg Verych
* Bob Proulx (Thu, 26 Jul 2007 13:48:18 -0600) > > Oleg Verych wrote: [--] >> Funny, i've discovered, how bloated adduser is yesterday, while >> developing my aggressive distro-cleaner. Now i'm thinking about >> writing patches at least for exim4 and cron to ha

Re: adduser kills sound pt. 3

2007-07-26 Thread Bob Proulx
Oleg Verych wrote: > Rick Spillane wrote: > > In the future, I will *not* use adduser, and I would > > recommend that Debian have this application not be in the default path > > or some substitute that issues a warning. Strange. adduser has always worked perfectly f

Re: adduser kills sound pt. 3

2007-07-26 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
ere is usually a group created for each user... I recommend you _not_ use a gui to add users and instead use adduser from the cli. Also you should probably scan the bugs of the gui you've been using and see if you problem has been reported or not and whether the corrupting of /etc/group is inc

Re: adduser kills sound pt. 3

2007-07-26 Thread Oleg Verych
* Rick Spillane (26-07-2007) > OK, I've figured it out. adduser modifies /etc/group apparently, and > relatively significantly. I was able to fix all my problems by looking > at Octavio's /etc/group, and adding the groups that looked like they > were missing. In the fu

Re: adduser kills sound pt. 3

2007-07-25 Thread Rick Spillane
OK, I've figured it out. adduser modifies /etc/group apparently, and relatively significantly. I was able to fix all my problems by looking at Octavio's /etc/group, and adding the groups that looked like they were missing. In the future, I will *not* use adduser, and I would recommend t

adduser kills sound pt. 3

2007-07-25 Thread Rick Spillane
OK. So I investigated what statoverride is, and its a list of names that can be used to install packages under. I checked /var/lib/dpkg/statoverride, and it seems as though there is indeed a name 'root' in there, thus doubling my confusion. My guess is that the there was once a root group in /etc/

adduser kills sound pt. 2

2007-07-25 Thread Rick Spillane
7; in statoverride file E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2) A package failed to install. Trying to recover: I think that adduser messed up my groups file, and now a lot of stuff, including dpkg and my sound isn't working. Any ideas? I wish I could just restore my /etc directory to

adduser kills sound

2007-07-25 Thread Rick Spillane
Twice I have used adduser to add a new user to my laptop, and each time afterward, I find that I am unable to use my sound device. When I use programs that output sound as root however, I am able to hear sound. Figuring that this is a permissions related issue, I checked my /etc/group file, and

Re: adduser: Only one or two names allowed.

2007-06-19 Thread Manon Metten
Hi Florian, On 6/19/07, Florian Kulzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: As fas as I know, the error message "adduser: Only one or two names allowed." means that you provided more than two non-option arguments to adduser; it has nothing to do with the number of users on your syst

Re: adduser: Only one or two names allowed.

2007-06-19 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Mon, Jun 18, 2007 at 17:38:27 +, Manon Metten wrote: > Hi, > > I want to add another user to my system, but adduser won't let me. > It complains with the error msg: adduser: Only one or two names allowed. > I wanted to add a user with the user name "guest&quo

adduser: Only one or two names allowed.

2007-06-18 Thread Manon Metten
Hi, I want to add another user to my system, but adduser won't let me. It complains with the error msg: adduser: Only one or two names allowed. I wanted to add a user with the user name "guest", but other names are also rejected. My guess is these two users are root & me (m

adduser and RPC Connection

2006-07-18 Thread T
[redirected from gmane.linux.distributions.grml.user] hi whenever I add a user in grml, I get the following error: rpcinfo: can't contact portmapper: RPC: Remote system error - Connection refused The respond that I got is that - the Debian's useradd tried to run userauth via NIS by default,

adduser (limit resource)

2006-06-19 Thread Pol Hallen
Hi everyone :-) i need add several user with limit resource as example: a user can use until 10% of cpu, 10% of ram how do this thing?! thanks :-) Pol -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Couldn't download adduser

2005-10-17 Thread housi mueller
I downloaded the last stable netinst image (i386). When I now try to install Debian, I get always the error „Couldn’t download adduser“! What could I do to avoid this error and make a netinsall of Debian???    Thanks in advance for helping.. Housi Mueller Yahoo! Music Unlimited - Access

Re: adduser: default groups

2005-07-10 Thread Bob Proulx
ny examples so I don't know > about the syntax (if any). Could you give me some pointer? The man page for adduser points you to /etc/adduser.conf. man adduser.conf But I think what you want is not in the feature set. So you would need to use a script to do this automatically. The adduser

Re: adduser: default groups

2005-07-09 Thread Roman Muñoz
#x27;can't find any examples so I don't know about the syntax (if any). Could you give me some pointer? I know, I can write a little shell script. I made it for Woody. I'm sure it would work on Sarge too. Now I would know about that defaults file. After all, adduser is a perl scrip

Re: adduser: default groups

2005-07-09 Thread David Clymer
On Sat, 2005-07-09 at 19:46 +0200, Roman Muñoz wrote: > Hi, > > I found that Sarge's new users "adduser xxx" by default aren't on group > "camera" so a friend of mine has been drived nuts before I got their > Kodak working :) > > It was the sam

Re: adduser: default groups

2005-07-09 Thread Rakotomandimby Mihamina
Roman Muñoz wrote: > Hi, Hi, > Question is: where can I set these default groups the user will be in? I > reviewed adduser and /etc/adduser.conf and found nothing 'man adduser' clearly tells that you can provide arguments to specify your custom choices. -- Miroir de logic

adduser: default groups

2005-07-09 Thread Roman Muñoz
Hi, I found that Sarge's new users "adduser xxx" by default aren't on group "camera" so a friend of mine has been drived nuts before I got their Kodak working :) It was the same on woody where I needed to add new user to groups "audio", etc, in order to

adduser: what is the difference between --disabled-password and --disabled-login

2005-05-06 Thread Shaul Karl
adduser(8) states that With the --disabled-login option, the account will be created but will be disabled until a password is set. The --disabled-password option will not set a password, but login are still possible for example through SSH RSA keys. I wonder what is the

Re: adduser problem

2004-10-11 Thread Jim Hall
ry), the server is Debian (named debbie). Buddy set it up. He is >>very, very good, but had to do some customization (maybe a lot). After >>doing updates, upgrades, and dist-upgrades on the lab test system with >>no apparent ill effects, I thought it was time to do the same to the &

Re: adduser problem

2004-10-11 Thread Sergio Basurto
ent ill effects, I thought it was time to do > the same to the > newspapers server. In the process I broke 'adduser'. So > far, the > solution appears to involve LDAP. None of us seems to > have much > experience with that. Buddy has since moved and isn't >

Re: adduser problem

2004-10-11 Thread Don Parris
- Original Message - Subject: adduser problem Date: Sun, 10 Oct 2004 22:45:34 -0500 From: Jim Hall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Debian User List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Greetings, I volunteer in my church's computer lab (hence my email name) and advocate Linux where and wheneve

Re: adduser problem

2004-10-10 Thread John Schmidt
> story), the server is Debian (named debbie). Buddy set it up. He is > very, very good, but had to do some customization (maybe a lot). After > doing updates, upgrades, and dist-upgrades on the lab test system with > no apparent ill effects, I thought it was time to do the same to the

Re: adduser problem

2004-10-10 Thread Douglas Ward
On Sunday, 10 October 2004 23:45, Jim Hall wrote: > Greetings, > snip > > The newspaper has been working on a series of articles about the > switchover from Windoze to Linux. Right now they're not very happy with > Debian. Is there anyone who offers paid, secure support for Debian? > Donation to th

adduser problem

2004-10-10 Thread Jim Hall
had to do some customization (maybe a lot). After doing updates, upgrades, and dist-upgrades on the lab test system with no apparent ill effects, I thought it was time to do the same to the newspapers server. In the process I broke 'adduser'. So far, the solution appears to involve LDAP. None

Re: urgetn adduser with .dot

2004-09-14 Thread Raghavendra Bhat
Vijaya > i need this for my mail server If you need it for your mail server, the default MTA Exim on Debian can handle 'rewriting' via /etc/email-addresses. Inside /etc/email-addresses, map john --> [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hth. -- ragOO VU2RGU Help keep the Radio Spectrum FREE Help keep Co

Re: urgetn adduser with .dot

2004-09-14 Thread Sam Snow
Vijaya S said: > Hi all, > I want to add a user with .in between for example john.doe > > But in debian sarge i was not able to do it with adduser > so i tried with useradd and it was successful. There was an entry in > /etc/passwd file > But when i cd /home/john.doe >

Re: urgetn adduser with .dot

2004-09-14 Thread Kent West
Vijaya S wrote: Hi all, I want to add a user with .in between for example john.doe But in debian sarge i was not able to do it with adduser so i tried with useradd and it was successful. There was an entry in /etc/passwd file But when i cd /home/john.doe it says no such file or directory and i

urgetn adduser with .dot

2004-09-14 Thread Vijaya S
Hi all, I want to add a user with .in between for example john.doe But in debian sarge i was not able to do it with adduser so i tried with useradd and it was successful. There was an entry in /etc/passwd file But when i cd /home/john.doe it says no such file or directory and i cant see any

adduser broken

2003-10-15 Thread Mike Egglestone
the adduser command is run, the command just hangs and a control C is the only way to get out of it. This error appears after the conrol C: # adduser billy Caught a SIGINT. Cleaning up. Any help or advice would be great. Not sure where to start looking for the problem. Thanks Mike

RE: adduser problem

2003-09-25 Thread Tim Gunning
> -Original Message- > From: Tony Leung [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 25 September 2003 07:17 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: adduser problem > > > Dear All, > > I want to create user account with dot between the username, > but can'

adduser problem

2003-09-24 Thread Tony Leung
Dear All, I want to create user account with dot between the username, but can't create, what setting should i change? test:~# adduser abc.ken adduser: Please enter a username consisting of a lower case letter followed by lower case letters and numbers. Use the `--force-badname'

Re: adduser wants root passwd though I am root

2003-03-13 Thread Kevin Buhr
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > I am root and want create new user ... > > $> whoami > $> root > $> adduser test > $> Password: Under the hood, "adduser" uses "useradd" (from the "passwd" package) to do its work. My "adduser&q

Re: adduser wants root passwd though I am root

2003-03-04 Thread Rudy Gevaert
On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 11:50:03AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > $> Password: > > Once I have inserted root password it passed through it and added new user. > > Is it normal? Yes, that is the password of the user you have to set. Without a password a user can't login. (You can use the --d

adduser wants root passwd though I am root

2003-03-04 Thread stavel
I am root and want create new user ... $> whoami $> root $> adduser test $> Password: Once I have inserted root password it passed through it and added new user. Is it normal? Is it behaviour for increasing security or the PC is hacked? How do I turn off th

Re: OT: adduser vs manual file manipulation [WAS: Re: List of users from a certain group]

2003-02-02 Thread sean finney
On Sun, Feb 02, 2003 at 01:03:20PM +0100, Johannes Zarl wrote: > I always edited the group, passwd and shadow files per hand to > add/remove/alter groups/users and I never had any problem. > > Is there any drawback I missed in using this procedure? Or is this simply > a matter of convenience? i

Re: OT: adduser vs manual file manipulation [WAS: Re: List of users from a certain group]

2003-02-02 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, Feb 02, 2003 at 01:03:20PM +0100, Johannes Zarl wrote: > Colin Watson wrote: > > In general, I suggest using adduser on Debian rather than useradd. > > useradd is the low-level tool; adduser is the higher-level utility which > > is intended to be easier to use. >

OT: adduser vs manual file manipulation [WAS: Re: List of users from a certain group]

2003-02-02 Thread Johannes Zarl
> In general, I suggest using adduser on Debian rather than useradd. > useradd is the low-level tool; adduser is the higher-level utility which > is intended to be easier to use. I always edited the group, passwd and shadow files per hand to add/remove/alter groups/users and I neve

Re: using adduser script & ldap

2002-09-26 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Wed, Sep 25, 2002 at 11:52:14PM +0200, Thorsten Klein wrote: | hi, | | i'd like to know if it's possible to use the adduser script with a | ldap-server on woody. | | i'd googled for a while and can't find anything usefull on that topic. Take a look at http://sour

Re: using adduser script & ldap

2002-09-25 Thread nate
Thorsten Klein said: > hi, > > i'd like to know if it's possible to use the adduser script with a > ldap-server on woody. I don't think so. even if 'passwd' works, that still leaves a big chunk out: authenticating to the database to add a user to it. I do

using adduser script & ldap

2002-09-25 Thread Thorsten Klein
hi, i'd like to know if it's possible to use the adduser script with a ldap-server on woody. i'd googled for a while and can't find anything usefull on that topic. everything else seems to work (in fact everything that i have tested ;) e.g. ssh, imap, su...) but i can't

Re: adduser 77777 problem

2002-02-20 Thread Tony Crawford
louie miranda wrote (on 20 Feb 2002 at 4:56): > try useradd Did you? T. -- -- Tony Crawford -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- +49-3341-30 99 99 --

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