how add user in Redhat6.2

[mingx98]

hi, Dear all,
When I try "#useradd new_user " in Redhat 6.2,
it say:
useradd: error locking group file

what is matter , how can I add a user to the Redhat 6.2 ?

Thanks

 

[ifincham]

Hi,





Well useradd (or adduser which is symbolically linked to useradd) is the right command from the shell. Sounds like there is an error trying to update the /etc/groups file - by default a redhat system will create a new group which equates to the user name. Perhaps the permissions are wrong - a 'ls -l /etc/group' should look like this :





-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 650 Jul 25 21:20 /etc/group





If its different then do (as root)





chmod 644 /etc/group





Another tactic would be to specify an existing group to see if that works (it wouldn't need to lock /etc/group for writing). For example -





/usr/sbin/useradd new_user -g users -n





-n suppresses the redhat specfic feature of creating a group equivalent to username.





Otherwise you could try using 'linuxconf' (with or without X) or even going to single user mode with 'init 1', mounting the /usr filesystem manually if necessary, then doing the '/usr/sbin/useradd....' again.





Hope this helps, Iain

 

[krischrist]

friend,
You can also try userconf.Just invoke that in the command line give the login name , name of the person and the group and also the UID number that's it a user is added.Give the password of your choice.

Krischrist