Command for Fedora core 6

[zarahel]

Does anybody what´s the adduser command to fedora core 6? is it usermount?

 

[zarahel]

And addgroup btw? I need to know how to add a user and a group in fedora 6? in other versions to add a user is adduser ´USER´ and to add a group is /usr/bin/groupadd ´GROUP´ but in f6 i have no ideia.

 

[thedaver]

groupadd
useradd

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[RhythmAce]

I don't think there is any difference FC6. The command adduser is a symlink to useradd. Check your man pages i.e. man useradd and see how it works.

 

[zarahel]

Ok,so this is my problem...I´m trying to install nagios,and I´m following the installation guide,but at a point (after I´ve created the user nagios) I have to do a:

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chown nagios.nagios /usr/local/nagios

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It starts to change the ownership but then i get a "operation not permitted" message.I think it´s related with permissions or authorizations,but I´m a total noob in linux and I don´t know how to give myself permissions...I have the root password but I can´t seem have permissions to do almost anything

 

[franklin97355]

Have you tried su ? You may need to (for this instance ONLY) log on as root.

The answer is "42"

 

[zarahel]

I´ve logged in as root and it worked fine...thks franklin,u´re a life saver =) \o/

 

[RhythmAce]

Good thing I didn't make a fool of myself. I would have thought nagios.nagios should have been nagios:nagios. But I guess that was a typo. ;-)

 

[chipperMDW]

RhythmAce: The period syntax works because of this (from the coreutils info page):

[tt]Some older scripts may still use `.' in place of the `:' separator. POSIX 1003.1-2001 (*note Standards conformance: does not require support for that, but for backward compatibility GNU `chown' supports `.' so long as no ambiguity results. New scripts should avoid the use of `.' because it is not portable, and because it has undesirable results if the entire OWNER`.'GROUP happens to identify a user whose name contains `.'.[/tt]