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JoGiles
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Joined: 06 May 2003
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 Posted: Tue May 06, 2003 4:28 am Post subject: Trouble with adding new users |
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Hey there everyone - I'm Jonathan Giles from good old New Zealand 
I'm having a problem with my Gentoo linux install - I'm a new Linux user, and have been managing so far, but I am running in root and it doesn't make me feel too safe...
When I run useradd or superadduser I get the error message
| Code: | | useradd: invalid user name 'Jo' |
I was wondering what I should try to fix this issue and make myself a new user account - I have no idea where to start
Thanks in advance,
Jonathan Giles |
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Naan Yaar
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| Posted: Tue May 06, 2003 4:51 am Post subject: |
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useradd (and, consequently, superadduser) do not accept uppercase characters. The new username must match this regular expression:
You can make "jo" the username and specify "Jo <Something>" to be the full name. |
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pjp
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| Posted: Tue May 06, 2003 4:53 am Post subject: |
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There are some threads in Documentation, Tips & Tricks regarding Red Hat like scripts that will do this. Uppercase, .'s and maybe some other stuff.
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taskara
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| Posted: Tue May 06, 2003 5:40 am Post subject: |
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| Code: | | emerge superadduser |
then run
fill in the details
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