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Hi, To add a user to the system on the commandline, I usually use the adduser command. # adduser newuser And that's it. I've been using that command probably out of an old habit, since I've been a long-time Slackware user before. But now I wanted to dig a bit deeper, and some details puzzle me. Whereas on Slackware, 'adduser' is an interactive shell script to create a

Does anyone know a good open source and free webmonitoring software which I can use to monitor some websites and build simple uptime/downtine statistics for my customers (conform SLA's) ? Any help/hitns would be very apperciated :) -- Michiel

Hi, I was wondering if RHEL 4 already available is...and the CentOS version. I am running Centos 4 beta but I did not receive any updates from January - now..and I saw a bunch of RHEL 4 errata updates today. Thanks for your answer. -- Michiel

You're going to need root access. Presumably you have it if you have control over icecast. You could do a simple adduser. Then use your favorite editor and open up the /etc/passwd file (again as root). You'll need to read up on what each of the fields are, but in short you'll want to * the password field for that new user. You'll also want to change the shell to /bin/false.

Hi All, I am confused about users. IIRC, ftp users are just ordinary users on the system (/etc/passwd) Is there an add user wizard from the command-line? I dont quite get all of the steps to add a user, dont let login except FTP, etc, etc -Jason

at http://wiki.openpbx.org/tiki-index.php?page=Easy+route+to+building+OpenPBX.org there is the following adduser command: adduser --no-create-home --ingroup openpbx --disabled-password --disabled-login openpbx This does NOT seem to be the right format for Centos. So far, using man, I have come up with; adduser -M -g openpbx What else do I need?

Hello! adduser(8) perl script uses crypt(3) to generate encrypted passwords, as pointed in /usr/sbin/adduser itself. Currently in /etc/login.conf password format is MD5 as default but adduser always generates encrypted passwords in DES format. IMHO adduser script should read value of passwd_format in /etc/login.conf to decide what kind of salt (DES, MD5 or somewhat else) he gives to crypt. At

I installed CentOS 3.3 some time ago and the first thing I did after the install was to run a little script that adds my user plus a few other things. The script adds my user like this USER="ulrik" PASSWD="<mypasswd>" /usr/sbin/adduser $USER -p $PASSWD It seemed to work fine except I couldn't login? I searched Google for reasons why I could only login via ssh as

Hello, I'm just wondering if someone stumble upon this. We are trying to create a local account but it looks like the adduser script is contacting the AD server for some reason and saying that the user "already exists" when it doesn't locally. Is there a way to disable adduser to contact AD or something similar? Thank you. [root at server01~]# adduser user01 adduser: user

Hi, I have a class to add users to all the host servers. We are in the process to have a coexisting user which belongs in NIS & as well as /etc/passwd. We have NIS clients (yp running) on all host servers. So when running puppet is fails to add or modify user, bcos the user already exists in NIS. Eg: A user pcruise is an existing NIS user. When using useradd or

Hello List, we like to add a newly generated user account that was created with the domain user tools, to another service on a separated machine, with the same credentials. Is there a simple way to retrieve the password like the username (%u) to hand the (cleartext-) password over to our adduser script? I know this is a hack, but we want to have a soft transformation until our AD service is

Has anyone else noticed that their normal system beep (from XBell() and the like) no longer works after upgrading to CentOS 4? Here's a list of my sound modules: snd_intel8x0m 14276 0 snd_intel8x0 26528 1 snd_ac97_codec 67296 2 snd_intel8x0m,snd_intel8x0 snd_pcm_oss 47652 0 snd_mixer_oss 16384 2 snd_pcm_oss snd_pcm 79880

Hello I want to use ntlm_auth together with winbindd for RADIUS-authentication of users against the users of a Samba-server. The freeRADIUS-daemon and the Samba-, winbindd- and ntlm_auth binaries are all on the same machine. Samba works fine and the whole setup worked fine with Samba 3.0.22. Actually I have to set up this scenario on a machine with Samba 3.0.24 and it does not work at all :-(.

we''re in the process of setting up an openldap server, for unified unix and webapp authentication, and i''m trying to find a good equivalent of adduser that takes care of generating unique unix numerical uids. what are people using for this? [i''ve googled around and found http://prope.insa-lyon.fr/~ppollet/ldap/useradd.pl but it''s dated 2000] martin

Hi I want the FORM values on my controller.i.e. I want the values of login_loginname(Form variable) and login_password(Form variable) on login_controller.rb How can i do that? Table Name is: logins Model:: Login.rb Controller:: login_controller.rb Below is my test form loginname password Hoping for reply Regards Parikshit

Has anyone else seen chkrootkit (version 0.43) on 4.10-prerelease or later report chfn, chsh, and date as infected? I built world yesterday, and my nightly chkrootkit reports this on run. I've replaced the binaries with their 4.9 equivalents, and things don't report as infected. I upgrade the 4.9 machine to 4.10, and chkrootkit reports them as infected again. Is this similar to the

Help, I'm stuck. Lost in the woods. I have one Asterisk running on FreeBSD outside on the Wild Internet. One on the safe inside, behind a NAT firewall. The inside server registers with IAX to the outer one and can place calls. The outside one can't register to the one on the inside, since it can't be reached on the private network. Now to my problem: * How do I dial from outside to

Hi, I was just wondering is it possible to disable the creation of the Linux default files in user's home and disable shell login? Regards, Norman

Hie all, I'm trying to use samba 2.0.4b on a SuSE 6.1 Linux box. What should I do with these two files : samba-2.0.0.dif samba.spec from the samba-2.0.4b/packaging/SuSE/6.0 directory. Is there any modification to do to have samba running without problems on SuSE 6.1 ? Thanks for help. Stephane FROMHOLTZ

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