On Mon, Mar 13, 2000 at 02:51:44PM -0000, Archana Bharathidasan wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I would like to know in detail the steps to add a non-priviledged user account in
>linux. Useradd doesnt work...it adds the newuser to the passwd file but I am not able
>to login using that name and password. Please help!
>
> Thank You,
> Archana.B
Probably all you need to do is make the user a home directory. The
whole process should be:
useradd <username>
passwd <username>
mkdir /home/<username>
chown <username>:users /home/username
chmod 750 /home/username
If this doesn't work, What does it say when you try to log in?
have fun adding,
greg
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