can't adduser

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On Tuesday 09 March 2004 22:19, russell wrote:
> Arindam Dey wrote:
> >On Wed, 2004-03-10 at 03:49, russell wrote:
> >>Invoking adduser or useradd in root returns the message command not
> >>found.  I checked the install and adduser and useradd are there.  Also,
> >>when trying to run a utility I installed I get the message:
> >>Missing utility ifconfig. Please install it.  ifconfig is also installed
> >>of course.  Anyone have any ideas whats going on here?
> >
> >"su -" instead of "su"
>
> That did the trick!  Many thanks.
>
> russell
The reason for this being that "su" by itself does not set "/sbin" and 
"/usr/sbin" in the path, whereas "su -" does.

You could also do 'su -c "/sbin/adduser"' with the specific path specified.
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