adding new users in gentoo

William Hubbs williamh at gentoo.org
Mon Aug 6 23:52:13 EDT 2007


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Hi Nick,

In answer to your first question, the command is

useradd -m -G users,usb,cdrom -s /bin/bash id

Note that the g is upper case.

In regards to the secodnd question, I will take a look into that (I
haven't had the problem myself), or maybe someone else can assist you
with that.

Thanks,

On Mon, Aug 06, 2007 at 04:09:49PM -0600, Nick Gawronski wrote:
> Hi, Following the handbook which does not work properly what command do I 
> use to add a user on my gentoo system.  If I type useradd -m -g 
> users,usb,cdrom -s /bin/bash it says invalid newmaric argument.  Also I am 
> having an odd problem eth0 is detected as my firewire card and eth1 is my 
> real network card.  How do I change the system to use eth1 rather then eth0? 
> 
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William Hubbs
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williamh at gentoo.org
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