Re: useradd

Chad Huneycutt <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.gentoo.newbies
Organization Georgia Tech College of Computing
Message-ID <[email protected]>
David Obwaller wrote:
> I recently installed Gentoo 1.2 from the stage3 tarball. I updated the
> portage tree and merged a recent linux kernel (linux-2.4.19). I added a
> user using the command:
> 
> useradd -m -g users -G wheel username
> 
> and set a password. Now, when I log into this account I get an error:
> 
> /usr/bin/whoami: cannot find username for UID 1000
> 
> The prompt looks like "I have no name!@stoner / $" where stoner is my
> hostname.

Did you update baselayout, and let it overwrite your /etc/passwd and 
/etc/shadow file?  That is what I suspect happened.  Take a look at that 
file, and see if it has all of your users in it.

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Georgia Tech College of Computing               { linux };
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