Re: [CentOS] User Details

2011-02-15 Thread James Bensley
On 3 February 2011 12:45, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: > But the result for normal users is that command like "useradd", > "chkconfig", and "service" need to be typed out with their full path, > such as "/usr/sbin/useradd" or "/sbin/chkconfig". Thanks Nico, I was aware of this but I couldn't find the

Re: [CentOS] User Details

2011-02-03 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Always Learning wrote on Thu, 03 Feb 2011 12:06:53 +: > BUT, as someone helpfully mentioned on this list, ONLY if it has been > indexed by a routine which automatically runs at night. if you install mlocate that is the case! If you do not install mlocate you cannot locate, anyway. So, this i

Re: [CentOS] User Details

2011-02-03 Thread Nico Kadel-Garcia
On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 6:12 AM, James Bensley wrote: > I have some questions on how I can perform the following actions from > the terminal in CentOS 5.5 final. My Google searches aren't helping > and I keep seeing references to the command 'useradd' but this isn't > present on my box; > > -How to

Re: [CentOS] User Details

2011-02-03 Thread Always Learning
On Thu, 2011-02-03 at 04:01 -0800, John Doe wrote: > From: James Bensley > > >-How to add a new user? > > $ useradd > > -bash: useradd: command not found > > (This is the same for my normal user and when logged in as root) > First, normal user not finding useradd is normal. > And it would no

Re: [CentOS] User Details

2011-02-03 Thread John Doe
From: James Bensley >-How to add a new user? > $ useradd > -bash: useradd: command not found > (This is the same for my normal user and when logged in as root) First, normal user not finding useradd is normal. And it would not be able to use it for obvious security reasons... Second: use 'su -

Re: [CentOS] User Details

2011-02-03 Thread Scott Robbins
On Thu, Feb 03, 2011 at 11:12:19AM +, James Bensley wrote: > I have some questions on how I can perform the following actions from > the terminal in CentOS 5.5 final. My Google searches aren't helping > and I keep seeing references to the command 'useradd' but this isn't > present on my box; >

[CentOS] User Details

2011-02-03 Thread James Bensley
I have some questions on how I can perform the following actions from the terminal in CentOS 5.5 final. My Google searches aren't helping and I keep seeing references to the command 'useradd' but this isn't present on my box; -How to add a new user? $ useradd -bash: useradd: command not found (Thi