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• useradd instead of adduser,

  - by Chris at Well

  So I installed Ubuntu 13.04, set up sftp, that's all good. Setting up vsftpd for regular FTP users (we need those too, sadly. sftp isn't for good for all our purposes), i accidently used useradd to create one of the users instead of adduser. This user can't log in to frig all. I tried to delete the user and re-add it with adduser, no dice. It creates the user, but the permissions are frigged up. Any idea how I can completely undo a useradd, so that I can adduser this person and have everything coming up Milhouse again? Sorry boys, I frigged up hard.

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• How to make Ubuntu useradd behave like Centos useradd?

  - by Buttle Butkus

  I don't remember modifying CentOS useradd to get this behavior. useradd in CentOS creates the user's home directory with all the normal files (like .bashrc). I modified /etc/default/useradd to make it looks like CentOS (just required some uncommenting) except for Ubuntu having SHELL=/bin/sh instead of SHELL=/bin/bash How do I make useradd act like it does in CentOS? Is there some existing option to change? Or should I just add an alias to /etc/bash.bashrc? The difference: On Ubuntu, useradd is not creating the home directory. as root: $ useradd test $ cd ~test -su: cd: /home/test: No such file or directory

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• Puppet Exec fails executing useradd

  - by chris

  From what I understand, puppetd runs as root. As root, I launch puppetd --onetime --no-daemonize --verbose So I don't understand why this doesn't work: exec { "useradd -m testuser": path => "/bin:/usr/bin", } I just get: ...Exec[useradd -m testuser]/returns: change from notrun to 0 failed:useradd -m testuser returned 1 instead of one of [0] at... If I execute the command directly, it works just fine. Any ideas?

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• useradd won't work correctly on Debian Squeeze

  - by user49580

  system: Debian-60-squeeze-64-LAMP 2.6.32-5-amd64 As root I create a user in an ssh-console: useradd -m -G users myuser passwd myuser xxxxxx xxxxxx su myuser or after login via ssh I get: \[\033[01;31m\]\u\[\033[01;33m\]@\[\033[01;36m\]\h \[\033[01;33m\]\w \[\033[01;35m\]$ \[\033[00m\] plus the cursor Using the tab key the cursor just jumps forward, so no completion here. Also the arrow keys do NOT work, if I use right arrow key I get:^[[C What could cause this behavior?

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• OpenVPN useradd error

  - by zfz

  I tried to install an OpenVPN access server in Centos 6 on a linode VPS. The installation error occours when adding the user "openvpn". However, the installation is okay for my ubuntu 11.10 distro in another VPS. The error message is "useradd: canot open /etc/passwd" The detail of My "/etc/passwd" file: "-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1194 Oct 9 00:33 /etc/passwd" So how can I add the user "openvpn" to setup the VPN service? Thanks.

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• useradd /etc/passwd lock

  - by alexgindre

  I'm trying to add a user (as root) on CentOS 5.5 and I've got this message : useradd: unable to lock password file After reading some post linked to this issue I've deleted two files in /etc : .pwd.lock passwd- However it still doesn't work. Finally, I read a thread where the guy said that using the passwd command to update the passwd file and normally fix this issue. I've tried with the root user But I've got this issue : passwd: Authentication token manipulation error Any idea to add my user ?

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• OpenVPN useradd error

  - by zfz

  I tried to install an OpenVPN access server in Centos 6 on a linode VPS. The installation is okay for my ubuntu 11.10 distro in another VPS. The installation error occours when adding the user "openvpn" in Centos. The error message is "useradd: canot open /etc/passwd" The detail of My "/etc/passwd" file: "-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1194 Oct 9 00:33 /etc/passwd" I am not quite familiar with Centos, so how can I add the user "openvpn" in order to setup the VPN service? Thanks.

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• Samba users not added untill they logon first? Edit: How do I add users to tdbsam without a password prompt?

  - by glisignoli

  I add users to my server with the command useradd -m -p PASS_HASH -s /usr/sbin/nologin USERNAME Then I try to access their samba home share, but it never shows up until I login with the user: root:~$sudo login failtest Password:###### Added user failtest. Is there some way of added the user without logging in? Edit: The problem is that the user is added with the useradd command, but ubuntu seems to run an initalisation script when the user logs on for the first time. This script then adds that user to the tdbsam user database. Finding the initalisation script or the method it uses to add a user to the tdbsam database without requiring any user input (as smbpasswd -a USER prompts the user for a password). So all I need is a way to add a user+pass to the tdbsam database without prompting a user for a password (eg: samaba-add-user.sh USERNAME PASSWORD).

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• Ubuntu 12.04: Unable to add or delete a user named 'mysql'

  - by Afaque H

  I am trying to install MySql on Ubuntu 12.04 but the installation is failing with the error: "Can't change to run as user 'mysql'. Check if the user 'mysql' exits." So I go ahead type in the command : 'cat /etc/passwd | grep mysql' and result is null. I try to add a user 'mysql' by issuing the command 'useradd mysql'/. But it fails with the message: 'useradd: user 'mysql' already exists'. When I try to delete the user 'mysql' using the command 'userdel mysql' it also fails with the message "userdel: cannot remove entry 'mysql' from /etc/passwd." Can anyone explain me what's going on and suggest a solution.

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• Cannot login to newly created user account

  - by penner

  Trying to switch accounts to my newly created account I get a black screen and then it takes me back to the main login screen after entering the correct password. Upon logging into my previously existing account I get: "System Program Problem Detected" Details: Executable path /usr/bin/Xorg Package: xserver-xorg-core 2:1.11.4-0ubuntu10.1 Details: Crash ... (tons more, but no way to copy paste or save) When I try to su su -l penner I get: No directory, logging in with HOME=/ I manually created the home directory and this error goes away but still no luck with the login. Seems something has gone wrong with the user creation? How can I correct this?

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• Gnome 3 gdm fails to start after preupgrade from fedora 14 to 15

  - by digital illusion

  I'm not able to boot fedora 15 in runlevel 5. After all services start, when the login screen should appear, gdm just show a mouse waiting cursor and keeps restarting itself. From /var/log/gdm/\:0-greeter.log Gtk-Message: Failed to load module "pk-gtk-module" /usr/bin/gnome-session: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/gtk-3.0/modules/libatk-bridge.so: undefined symbol: atk_plug_get_type /usr/libexec/gnome-setting-daemon: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/gtk-3.0modules/libatk-bridge.so: undefined symbol: atk_plug_get_type Where should atk_plug_get_type be defined? Edit: Here a better description of the error (system-config-network-gui:2643): Gnome-WARNING **: Accessibility: failed to find module 'libgail-gnome' which is needed to make this application accessible /usr/bin/python: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/gtk-2.0/modules/libatk-bridge.so: undefined symbol: atk_plug_get_type Why there are still references to gtk2? Did preupgrade fail? Attaching upgrade log... it seems gdm was not added, but it is present in the users and groups list. May 26 11:25:52 sysimage sendmail[1076]: alias database /etc/aliases rebuilt by root May 26 11:25:52 sysimage sendmail[1076]: /etc/aliases: 77 aliases, longest 23 bytes, 795 bytes total May 26 11:46:09 sysimage useradd[1793]: failed adding user 'dbus', data deleted May 26 11:53:37 sysimage systemd-machine-id-setup[2443]: Initializing machine ID from D-Bus machine ID. May 26 11:55:28 sysimage useradd[2835]: failed adding user 'apache', data deleted May 26 11:55:38 sysimage useradd[2842]: failed adding user 'haldaemon', data deleted May 26 11:55:43 sysimage useradd[2848]: failed adding user 'smolt', data deleted May 26 11:57:32 sysimage sendmail[3032]: alias database /etc/aliases rebuilt by root May 26 11:57:32 sysimage sendmail[3032]: /etc/aliases: 77 aliases, longest 23 bytes, 795 bytes total May 26 11:57:46 sysimage groupadd[3066]: group added to /etc/group: name=cgred, GID=482 May 26 11:57:47 sysimage groupadd[3066]: group added to /etc/gshadow: name=cgred May 26 11:57:47 sysimage groupadd[3066]: new group: name=cgred, GID=482 May 26 11:58:42 sysimage useradd[3086]: failed adding user 'ntp', data deleted May 26 12:00:13 sysimage dbus: avc: received policyload notice (seqno=2) May 26 12:15:08 sysimage useradd[4950]: failed adding user 'gdm', data deleted May 26 12:24:39 sysimage dbus: avc: received policyload notice (seqno=3) May 26 12:25:24 sysimage useradd[5522]: failed adding user 'mysql', data deleted May 26 12:25:37 sysimage useradd[5533]: failed adding user 'rpcuser', data deleted May 26 12:26:31 sysimage useradd[5592]: failed adding user 'tcpdump', data deleted Any suggestions before I revert installation to F14?

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• How to fix out the error dpkg: error processing colord (--configure):

  - by ranjitpradhan

  I have upgrade my ubuntu from 11.10 to 12.04. at last i can found that when i tries to install some packages it shows a error. after reading some blog i tried to fix that error by "sudo dpkg --configure -a". but when i run this command it show another error this Setting up colord (0.1.16-2) ... useradd: cannot lock /etc/passwd; try again later. adduser: `/usr/sbin/useradd -d /var/lib/colord -g colord -s /bin/false -u 115 colord' returned error code 1. Exiting. dpkg: error processing colord (--configure): subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1 Setting up whoopsie (0.1.32) ... useradd: cannot lock /etc/passwd; try again later. adduser: `/usr/sbin/useradd -d /nonexistent -g whoopsie -s /bin/false -u 115 whoopsie' returned error code 1. Exiting. dpkg: error processing whoopsie (--configure): subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1 Setting up lightdm (1.2.1-0ubuntu1) ... Adding system user `lightdm' (UID 115) ... Adding new user `lightdm' (UID 115) with group `lightdm' ... useradd: cannot lock /etc/passwd; try again later. adduser: `/usr/sbin/useradd -d /var/lib/lightdm -g lightdm -s /bin/false -u 115 lightdm' returned error code 1. Exiting. dpkg: error processing lightdm (--configure): subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1 dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of ubuntu-desktop: ubuntu-desktop depends on lightdm; however: Package lightdm is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing ubuntu-desktop (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured Errors were encountered while processing: colord whoopsie lightdm ubuntu-desktop what can i do now ?

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• virt-manager not installing

  - by Registered User

  I am trying to install virt-manager on 11.10 on 64 bit machine sudo aptitude install virt-manager here is where it stopped the install Processing triggers for python-support ... Errors were encountered while processing: libvirt-bin E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) A package failed to install. Trying to recover: Setting up libvirt-bin (0.9.2-4ubuntu15) ... useradd: cannot lock /etc/passwd; try again later. adduser: `/usr/sbin/useradd -d /var/lib/libvirt -g kvm -s /bin/false -u 118 libvirt-qemu' returned error code 1. Exiting. dpkg: error processing libvirt-bin (--configure): subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1 Errors were encountered while processing: libvirt-bin What should be done in this case to resolve it?

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• Groups and Symlinks, is this safe?

  - by sjohns

  Hi, Im trying to serve similar content over two websites, but don't want to have 2 of each file, especially when they are growing. The basics, im running CentOS, with cPanel. Is it safe to do the following, I have folder downloads1 in /home/user1/www/downloads1/ i have user2, can i make a group - groupadd sharedfiles add both users to the group: useradd -g sharedfiles user1 useradd -g sharedfiles user2 then chown -r -v user1:sharedfiles downloads1/ User 2 i want to have /home/user2/www/downloads1 but i want it to be a symlink like ln "downloads1" "/home/user1/www/downloads1/" lrwxrwxrwx 1 user2 sharedfiles 11 May 9 14:20 downloads1 -> /home/user1/www/downloads1/ Is this a safe practice? Or is there a better way to do this if I want them both to be able to share the files for distribution over apache. Is there any drawbacks to this? Thanks in advance for any light shed on this. I'm not 100% sure weather this should have gone here or on serverfault.

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• Groups and Symlinks, is this safe?

  - by sjohns

  Hi, Im trying to serve similar content over two websites, but don't want to have 2 of each file, especially when they are growing. The basics, im running CentOS, with cPanel. Is it safe to do the following, I have folder downloads1 in /home/user1/www/downloads1/ i have user2, can i make a group - groupadd sharedfiles add both users to the group: useradd -g sharedfiles user1 useradd -g sharedfiles user2 then chown -r -v user1:sharedfiles downloads1/ User 2 i want to have /home/user2/www/downloads1 but i want it to be a symlink like ln "downloads1" "/home/user1/www/downloads1/" lrwxrwxrwx 1 user2 sharedfiles 11 May 9 14:20 downloads1 -> /home/user1/www/downloads1/ Is this a safe practice? Or is there a better way to do this if I want them both to be able to share the files for distribution over apache. Is there any drawbacks to this? Thanks in advance for any light shed on this. I'm not 100% sure weather this should have gone here or on serverfault.

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• Incompatible group permissions in Linux - Is it a bug?

  - by Sachin

  I am on Ubuntu 11.04. I am creating another user and placing an existing user in the group of other user, hoping to write in the home directory of other user. # uname -a Linux vini 2.6.38-11-generic #50-Ubuntu SMP Mon Sep 12 21:18:14 UTC 2011 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux # whoami sachin # su root # useradd -m -U foo // create user foo # usermod -a -G foo sachin // add user `sachin' to group `foo' # chmod 770 /home/foo/ # exit # whoami sachin # cd /home/foo/ bash: cd: /home/foo/: Permission denied # groups sachin sachin : sachin foo This is totally weird. Though user sachin is in group foo, and group bits for /home/foo/ is set to rwx, sachin can't chdir to /home/foo/. I am not able to understand this. But, if at the exit step, I switch to sachin user from root, this is what happens: # uname -a Linux vini 2.6.38-11-generic #50-Ubuntu SMP Mon Sep 12 21:18:14 UTC 2011 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux # whoami sachin # su root # useradd -m -U foo // create user foo # usermod -a -G foo sachin // add user `sachin' to group `foo' # chmod 770 /home/foo/ # su sachin # whoami sachin # cd /home/foo/ # ls examples.desktop Now, whatever is happening here is totally incomprehensible. Does su sachin inherits some permissions from the root user at this step? Any explanations would be much appreciated.

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• Installing a minimal GUI + VNC

  - by Malachi

  I have a fresh install of Ubuntu 10.04 Server on my VPS and would like to install a minimal GUI onto this and allow VNC access to. Please could someone outline the steps required to set this up so that I can VNC to my machine under a newly created user account. Create the user: useradd -m -s /bin/bash -p password -d /home/usera userA chown userA:users /home/usera Install the GUI sudo apt-get install --no-install-recommends ubuntu-desktop Setup VNC ?

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• How to create a user with root privileges in bash?

  - by George Edison

  I have run the following commands: sudo groupadd -r testgroup sudo useradd -g testgroup -M -r testuser Notice the -r option, which according to the man page: -r     Create a system account. Assuming I have a user account with root privileges, I then run: sudo -u testuser cat /dev/input/mouse0 However, I get: cat: /dev/input/mouse0: Permission denied Running the same command as root provides the expected output (garbled output from the mouse driver). How can I create a user with root privileges?

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• Ubuntu Server adding a new user

  - by Paul Edwards

  Hi i am new to Ubuntu server and i have been trying to add a new user. I typed in adduser then username and also tried useradd then username but it does seem to add a user but when i login i only get a dollar sign instead of user@servername. I have tried adding rules to allow me into the sudo for that username but i just can't work out why i only get the dollar sign. So would be really grateful if someone could help me with this Thanks....

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• Users database empty after Samba3 to Samba4 migration on different servers

  - by ouzmoutous

  I have to migrate a Samba 3 to a new Samba 4 server. My problem is that the database on the samba 3 server seems a bit empty. The secrets.dtb file is only 20K whereas the “pbedit -L |wc -l”command give me 16970 lines. On my Samba3 /var/lib/samba is 1,5M After I had migrate the databse (following instructions on http://dev.tranquil.it/index.php/SAMBA_-_Migration_Samba3_Samba4), “pdbedit -L” command on the new server give me only : SAMBA4$, Administrator, dns-samba4, krbtgt and nobody. So I tried to create a VM with a Samba3. I added some users, done the same things I did for the migration and now I can see the users created on the VM. It’s like users on the Samba 3 server are in a sort of cache. I already migrate the /etc/{passwd,shadow,group} files and I can see users with the “getent passwd” command. Any ideas why my users are present when I use pdbedit but the database is so empty ? The global part of my smb.conf on the Samba 3 server : [global] workgroup = INTERNET netbios name = PDC-SMB3 server string = %h server interfaces = eth0 obey pam restrictions = Yes passdb backend = smbpasswd passwd program = /usr/bin/passwd %u passwd chat = *new* %n\n *Re* %n\n *pa* username map = /etc/samba/smbusers unix password sync = Yes syslog = 0 log file = /var/log/samba/log.%U max log size = 1000 socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192 add user script = /usr/sbin/useradd -s /bin/false -m '%u' -g users delete user script = /usr/sbin/userdel -r '%u' add group script = /usr/sbin/groupadd '%g' delete group script = /usr/sbin/groupdel '%g' add user to group script = /usr/sbin/usermod -G '%g' '%u' add machine script = /usr/sbin/useradd -s /bin/false -d /dev/null '%u' -g machines logon script = logon.cmd logon home = \\$L\%U domain logons = Yes os level = 255 preferred master = Yes local master = Yes domain master = Yes dns proxy = No ldap ssl = no panic action = /usr/share/samba/panic-action %d invalid users = root admin users = admin, root, administrateur log level = 2

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• ssh many users to one home

  - by filippo

  Hiya, I want to allow some trusted users to scp files into my server (to an specific user), but I do not want to give these users a home, neither ssh login. I'm having problems to understand the correct settings of users/groups I have to create to allow this to happen. I will put an example; Having: MyUser@MyServer MyUser belongs to the group MyGroup MyUser's home will be lets say, /home/MyUser SFTPGuy1@OtherBox1 SFTPGuy2@OtherBox2 They give me their id_dsa.pub's and I add it to my authorized_keys I reckon then, I'd do in my server something like useradd -d /home/MyUser -s /bin/false SFTPGuy1 (and the same for the other..) And for the last, useradd -G MyGroup SFTPGuy1 (then again, for the other guy) I'd expect then, the SFTPGuys to be able to sftp -o IdentityFile=id_dsa MyServer and to be taken to MyUser's home... Well, this is not the case... SFTP just keeps asking me for a password. Could someone point out what am I missing? Thanks a mil, f. [EDIT: Messa in StackOverflow asked me if authorized_keys file was readable to the other users (members of MyGroup). Its an interesting point, this was my answer: Well, it wasn't (it was 700), but then I changed the permissions of the .ssh dir and the auth file to 750 though still no effect. Guess it's worth mentioning that my home dir ( /home/MyUser) is also readable for the group; most dirs being 750 and the specific folder where they'd drop files is 770. Nevertheless, about the auth file, I reckon the authentication would be performed by the local user on MyServer, isn't it? if so, I don't understand the need for other users to read it... well.. just wondering. ]

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• Debian: Adding new user?

  - by Marco

  How can I create a new user then SSH into the box under that user? I ran: useradd marco -d /home/marco -p WuUfhRdt4B Then I added to /etc/ssh/sshd_config: AllowUsers root marco Then restarted ssh: /etc/init.d/ssh restart I can't login. What did I miss? ** Running Debian.

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• Writting this Bash Script to accept Arguments?

  - by Urda

  How would I go about converting this bash script: mkdir /store/sftp/%USERNAME% sudo useradd -d /incoming %USERNAME% sudo passwd %USERNAME% ## Password needs to be typed or passed in here sudo usermod -g sftp %USERNAME% sudo usermod -s /bin/false %USERNAME% sudo chmod 755 /store/sftp/%USERNAME% sudo chown root:root /store/sftp/%USERNAME% sudo mkdir /store/sftp/%USERNAME%/incoming sudo chown %USERNAME%:sftp /store/sftp/%USERNAME%/incoming To accpet a username and a password?

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• creating a new user Ubuntu

  - by Matt

  I am trying to new user that can sftp on a server....i did this ubuntu@ip-10-112-46-15:~$ sudo useradd jesse -p testPass ubuntu@ip-10-112-46-15:~$ sudo passwd jesse Enter new UNIX password: Retype new UNIX password: passwd: password updated successfully but when i try to login via sftp I cant get in....am i missing something like adding a group or something the answer was PasswordAuthentication yes

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• Adduser not working on kde ubuntu

  - by c0mrade

  When I use adduser or useradd from console to add users I can't login when using KDE, how do I add the to be able to use KDE as well, for now I have KDE access with only one user which I used to install kubuntu with sudo. What can I do so that users can login in KDE?

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