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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers How to install Unix on my pc Post 62544 by gjduff on Thursday 17th of February 2005 03:38:20 AM
Old 02-17-2005
useradd

Many unix's have a program called "useradd".

It may not be in your path. If not, find it (while also seeing if you do have it)
by doing:
whereis useradd

For example, on my system:
Code:
[gjduff@melvin gjduff]$ whereis useradd
useradd: /usr/sbin/useradd /usr/share/man/man8/useradd.8.gz

If you don't have it, there might be a way to do it right
from a GUI: Example: in gnome's menu: system settings -> users and groups

And finally, if the two above ideas fail, here's three pages that show the
more traditional approach:

http://www.sikh-history.com/computer...eraccount.html
http://jove.eng.yale.edu/doco/EIT-AD...t-admin-3.html
http://unix.ittoolbox.com/groups/gro...&i=91461&x=ori
 

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GRUB-INSTALL(8) 					  System Administration Utilities					   GRUB-INSTALL(8)

NAME
grub-install - install GRUB to a device SYNOPSIS
grub-install [OPTION] install_device DESCRIPTION
Install GRUB on your drive. -h, --help print this message and exit -v, --version print the version information and exit --modules=MODULES pre-load specified modules MODULES --boot-directory=DIR install GRUB images under the directory DIR/grub instead of the /boot/grub directory --grub-setup=FILE use FILE as grub-setup --grub-mkimage=FILE use FILE as grub-mkimage --grub-mkrelpath=FILE use FILE as grub-mkrelpath --grub-mkdevicemap=FILE use FILE as grub-mkdevicemap --grub-probe=FILE use FILE as grub-probe --no-floppy do not probe any floppy drive --allow-floppy Make the drive also bootable as floppy (default for fdX devices). May break on some BIOSes. --recheck probe a device map even if it already exists --force install even if problems are detected --disk-module=MODULE disk module to use INSTALL_DEVICE can be a GRUB device name or a system device filename. grub-install copies GRUB images into /boot/grub, and uses grub-setup to install grub into the boot sector. REPORTING BUGS
Report bugs to <bug-grub@gnu.org>. SEE ALSO
grub-mkconfig(8), grub-mkimage(1), grub-setup(8), grub-mkrescue(1) The full documentation for grub-install is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the info and grub-install programs are properly installed at your site, the command info grub-install should give you access to the complete manual. grub-install (GRUB) 1.99-12ubuntu5 October 2011 GRUB-INSTALL(8)
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