adding user starting with caps letter fails on linux
|
| Author | Content |
|---|---|
| raja Jan 10, 2005 6:14 AM CST |
I tried to add user with name 'NewUser' and got following message - useradd: invalid user name 'NewUser' Can someone help me to know the reason behind it? Thanx raja |
| PaulFerris Jan 10, 2005 6:39 AM CST |
raja, I tried this just now on a Suse system -- worked fine like this: # useradd NewUser And, to remove: # userdel NewUser I think you should be fine -- what distribution? --FeriCyde |
| TxtEdMacs Jan 10, 2005 7:28 AM CST |
raja: If you are using 10.1 Mandrake (do not remember how 10.0 behaved) I had to take out all my caps for the user name using their "Drake..." tool. If it works from the command line as suggested above, go that route. |
| raja Jan 10, 2005 5:26 PM CST |
FeriCyde, I am using RedHat and getting problem on executing command useradd NewUser - raja |
| PaulFerris Jan 11, 2005 6:14 AM CST |
raja: there is no other user like "newuser" in /etc/passwd already? If so, that might be the problem -- if not, try adding that user (newuser), then as root, edit /etc/passwd, and change it to say "NewUser" - only in the first column where that name appears (before the first colon:) -- don't put any spaces in there. Should work fine. --FeriCyde |
| dave Jan 11, 2005 7:15 AM CST |
Maybe this is the reason? http://lists.samba.org/archive/samba/2001-October/030358.htm... dave |
| PaulFerris Jan 11, 2005 7:35 AM CST |
That might do it if he were entering them from a text file -- like shown in that link -- but I was under the impression that he was adding right off the CLI... --FeriCyde |
| dave Jan 12, 2005 3:29 AM CST |
My guess is he is using an ssh tool from a Windows or Mac, and that tool is sending an extra ^M character. Dave |
| PaulFerris Jan 12, 2005 3:38 AM CST |
interesting theory, although I've used different proprietary and open versions of ssh, and never run into this kind of thing. The interpretors usually don't add the wrong terminator -- just the files themselves tend to have these kind of problems. |
You cannot post until you login.