largegroh Posted May 28, 2005 Report Share Posted May 28, 2005 (edited) 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
polemicz Posted May 28, 2005 Report Share Posted May 28, 2005 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
largegroh Posted May 29, 2005 Author Report Share Posted May 29, 2005 (edited) 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
largegroh Posted May 29, 2005 Author Report Share Posted May 29, 2005 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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