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Re: [cobalt-users] Manually Add User



On Wednesday 02 October 2002 10:40 pm, Dave Thurman (Mailing List Email) 
wrote:
> I searched the archives and states to add a user without the gui I would:
>  adduser
> I get command not found. It's a Raq4
> Tried adduser -u "name" and get an error wanting UID
> I want to add a user manually with a name and they would be the same group.
> Not real hot at Redhat, Debian is our preferred OS, besides our washing
> machines.

You have to be root
and use "su -" not just "su"

useradd and adduser are the same

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