adding additional users error....(solved)

[largegroh]

I am trying to add two new users, games and test, as per a tips and tricks suggestion for what do i do next. I have tried using the gui, MCC add users and also tried doing the same from root.l In each case i get the error message 'user already exists. please choose another user name.'

 

i type in the following:

full name: bob

login: games

password: (left blank as i do not want a pw)

password: (same as above)

login shell: /bin/bash (default)

 

directory: /home/games (default)

create private group for user: (tried checked and unchecked - same error)

specify user id manually: (tried checked and unchecked - same result)

 

i am at a loss as to what to try next. any help?

Edited May 29, 2005 by largegroh

[polemicz]

Assuming that the users exist have you tried to login as them? If so what do you get? If you want to delete them use userdel as root. Also from /home you can run the cammand ls -al and see what you have and what permissions are there as far as home directories.

[largegroh]

i will do that but they do not exist. i habve been working with only the one user i set up on installation. these are the first two i have tried to add. will try your command though...wierd[root@70-33-9-251 /]#

edit:

cd home

[root@70-33-9-251 home]# ls -al

total 16

drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 May 10 10:11 ./

drwxr-xr-x 19 root root 4096 May 28 15:22 ../

drwxr-xr-x 23 largegroh largegroh 4096 May 28 18:11 largegroh/

drwx------ 2 root root 4096 May 21 15:12 lost+found/

[root@70-33-9-251 home]#

 

no games, no test shlrug

Edited May 29, 2005 by largegroh

[largegroh]

duh!! test went right in.. it appears that the word games is used inside mandrake womewhere so would not accept it. did not know that