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Hello:

In attempting to set up a new user I run into the following problem. I
am typing in the example listed in the man page using my own information
- "adduser Shawn other /usr/Myhome" - Where "Shawn" is the name of the
new user and "Myhome" is the new directory I made in the /usr directory.
I'm not sure "other" is a functional group (I'm really ignorant here).

When I hit return I get the following:

adduser: the user name must be alphanumeric and no longer than 8
characters


I'm not sure what to do from here. 

Please help. Thank you.

Shawn Koons

> >
> > When adding a new user name via adduser, what is the initial password on
> > the account? I am trying to set up a separate user aside from root and
> > cannot access the new user account after setting it up because it asks
> > for a password.


