Re: adduser problem

2004-10-11 Thread Jim Hall
John Schmidt wrote: > On Sunday 10 October 2004 09:45 pm, Jim Hall wrote: > >>Greetings, >> snip >> >>About a year ago, my local LUG set up a small weekly newspaper with >>Linux. The workstations are dual boot W98/RedHat 7.3 (don't ask, long >>story), the server is Debian (named debbie). Buddy set

Re: adduser problem

2004-10-11 Thread Sergio Basurto
On Sun, 10 Oct 2004 22:45:34 -0500, Jim Hall wrote: > > Greetings, > > I volunteer in my church's computer lab (hence my email > name) and > advocate Linux where and whenever possible. We have a > sarge system as a > test system. A very knowledgeable Debian expert (call > him Buddy) helped >

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
On Sunday 10 October 2004 09:45 pm, Jim Hall wrote: > Greetings, > > I volunteer in my church's computer lab (hence my email name) and > advocate Linux where and whenever possible. We have a sarge system as a > test system. A very knowledgeable Debian expert (call him Buddy) helped > me set it up.

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
Greetings, I volunteer in my church's computer lab (hence my email name) and advocate Linux where and whenever possible. We have a sarge system as a test system. A very knowledgeable Debian expert (call him Buddy) helped me set it up. I started getting used to it, especially apt, because I've b

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' option to allow

adduser problem

1997-07-18 Thread Partha Narasimhan
After various combinations of adduser arguments, this is the most I have progressed through the process of adding a user. -- # adduser --gid 100 --uid 1001 xx Adding user xx... Adding new user xx (1001) with group CNC. useradd -d /home/xx -g CNC -s /bin/bash -u 1001 xx Home directory

Re: adduser problem

1997-07-12 Thread Randy Edwards
On Fri, 11 Jul 1997, Paul Miller wrote: > when I type "adduser username" in Debian 1.3.1, it only copies to first > line of each of the /etc/skel files what is wrong? This has been acknowledged by others as a bug (but I'm not sure if it's been officially reported). Regards,

Re: adduser problem

1997-07-12 Thread Dave Cinege
On Fri, 11 Jul 1997 22:04:29 -0400, Paul Miller wrote: >when I type "adduser username" in Debian 1.3.1, it only copies to first >line of each of the /etc/skel files what is wrong? : P This not fixed in 1.3.1??? Grab the new version of adduser in hamm... --

adduser problem

1997-07-12 Thread Paul Miller
when I type "adduser username" in Debian 1.3.1, it only copies to first line of each of the /etc/skel files what is wrong? -Paul -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .