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Subject: Re: adduser and password
From: bmarcum@iglou.com
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On 2000-04-18 skoons@pop3.famvid.com said:
   >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.
I think the user name has to be lower case.

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