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From: "Damon M. Conway" <damon@chiba.3jane.net>
To: gentoo-dev@cvs.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Problem adding user + Internationalization
Date: Mon Oct 29 09:59:01 2001	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200110291657.f9TGvls92706@chiba.3jane.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1004306524.2801.5.camel@katios.nolabel.net>

 Sylvain OBEGI wrote:
>Hello
>I tried to add an user, but ran into troubles. When doing a adduser
>command, i got a message about problem with homedir or something like
>that. Of course no home dir is created. And, I cannot log in with the
>new user.
>Any idea?

You need to give useradd the -m option to create the home dir.  You need to
run the passwd command on that user to set the pass so you can login.

>How to change add/change language in apps like kde?

No idea.

However, these types of questions are best suited for gentoo-user.  Please
use that list for general how-to questions.  There are lots of developers
who watch that list.  Thanks.

http://cvs.gentoo.org/mailman/listinfo/gentoo-user

kabau

--
"UNIX was not designed to stop you from doing stupid things, because that
 would also stop you from doing clever things."  --Doug Gwyn



  parent reply	other threads:[~2001-10-29 16:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-10-26 15:51 [gentoo-dev] Newbie + e3? + keymap? Sylvain OBEGI
2001-10-26 16:38 ` [gentoo-dev] s.q.u.e.l.c.h ebuild James M Long
2001-10-27 12:10   ` Martin Schlemmer
2001-10-26 16:45 ` [gentoo-dev] Newbie + e3? + keymap? Daniel Robbins
2001-10-27  9:35   ` Sylvain OBEGI
2001-10-28 15:03     ` [gentoo-dev] Problem adding user + Internationalization Sylvain OBEGI
2001-10-29  6:50       ` Dan Armak
2001-10-29  9:59       ` Damon M. Conway [this message]
2001-10-29 17:46         ` Sylvain OBEGI
2001-10-30  9:29           ` Damon M. Conway
2001-10-30  9:49             ` Djamil ESSAISSI
2001-10-30  9:52               ` Damon M. Conway
2001-10-30  9:57                 ` Djamil ESSAISSI
2001-10-30 10:13                   ` Daniel Robbins

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