RE: [CentOS] Adding user's and groups

>edit passwd and group is enough but if you need home dir, you need to >create it manualy, chmod and chown it >*, mean you can not login as this user (their is no password). Alain and John, Thanks! The man didn't provide this last bit of info! So no password makes since as I have not come across

Re: [CentOS] Adding user's and groups

On Dec 2, 2007 10:52 PM, Joseph L. Casale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Is it ok to edit the /etc/passwd and /etc/group files manually to add users > and groups or would this circumvent other required system commands from > being executed when adding them at the command line via useradd and

Re: [CentOS] Adding user's and groups

Joseph L. Casale wrote: Is it ok to edit the /etc/passwd and /etc/group files manually to add users and groups or would this circumvent other required system commands from being executed when adding them at the command line via useradd and groupadd? In reading the docs @ http://www.centos.

[CentOS] Adding user's and groups

Is it ok to edit the /etc/passwd and /etc/group files manually to add users and groups or would this circumvent other required system commands from being executed when adding them at the command line via useradd and groupadd? In reading the docs @ http://www.centos.org/docs/5/html/Deployment_Gu