Do you use the "passwd" command AFTER you add that user? In you are trying
to log in using a valid username, with password not set up, you'll fail
for sure ! :-)
Regards,
Razvan
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On Thu, 16 Mar 2000, Akintayo Holder wrote:
> 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!
> if you have redhat there is linuxconf (i think) since it is part of the
> gnome desktop other distros should have and I imagine kde has a similar
> program.
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