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Old 02-09-2012
useradd not working

Hi friends...

useradd not working....not sure the problem..I checked all the files...let me know if you find any solution...
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Old 02-09-2012
define 'not working'. Specifically what errors or problems are you seeing?
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Old 02-09-2012
useradd command not found
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Old 02-09-2012
iNSTALL BELOW PACKAGES/RPM
shadow-utils*

--Shirish
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Old 02-09-2012
Are you running this command as root? If you became root through su, did you do a "su -" rather than a "su" ?
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