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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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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