On 01-Feb-2000 Colin Watson wrote: > > It looks like you haven't got /usr/sbin on root's $PATH (as evidenced > also by the fact that you're using /usr/sbin/adduser instead of simply > adduser). groupadd, groupdel, and the like live there. Fix this and all > should be well.
I thought it might be that, and I do have /usr/sbin on root's PATH. I later closed the xterm window and tried with a new one and some things seemed to work. > > /usr/sbin should probably be on root's $PATH anyway, but it's probably a > bug in adduser that it doesn't use absolute paths (a potential security > hole, even?). You might want to file a bug about this. I will, if this problem persists. thanks -- Andrew