adding users

[Mark Haney]

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Tom Spec wrote:
> I have also had this issue in the past adding local users to machines setup for LDAP.  Try using the command:
> 
> system-config-users
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> You need a graphical environment to run this.
> 
> Otherwise you can just manually add the user to /etc/passwd, /etc/shadow, make them a home directory, copy default files from /etc/skel into their home directory and modifiy ownership of their home directory/files.
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I've been doing that, but I'd like to know /why/ this happens and /how/
I can fix it.  Surely there's a mechanism for it.



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Mark Haney
Sr. Systems Administrator
ERC Broadband
(828) 350-2415
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