[plug] Creating a user account

[James Tan]

> > James Tan wrote:
> > 
> > When I installed RH6.0, I chose custom which did not ask me to create
> > a user account other than root. Now I am trying commands like
> > adduser[which worked on another distro that I played around awhile
> > ago] but nothing seems to do it. I had a look at linuxconf but nothing
> > obvious regarding user account creation is there.  Is there a rpm that
> > makes this process easier ? 
> 
> # cd /usr/sbin
> # ls | grep user

Ta... that did it :) Thanks.

James

> 
> should show at least useradd if not adduser.  If for some reason
> /usr/sbin isn't in your $PATH then that could explain it.  Also try
> 'linuxconf' if you have it and I'm pretty sure redhat have a usermanager
> of their own which you could access from something like 'setup', but I
> can't remember, sorry.  Maybe someone else who has used redhat more
> recently would know?..
> 
> Regards,
> Steve
> 
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