Problems w/ adduser... says user 'root' doesn't exist!
I'm a bit confused here... I used dselect to install CUPS and it's
dependent packages, but no config program, which seemed odd. I used
links to browse the documentation in
/usr/share/doc/cupsys/README.Debian. It said that cups was almost
setup, but due to a bug in adduser, it hadn't added root to the
necessary group lpadmin yet, and I had to do it manually. I checked the
manpage for adduser, and it says that when adduser is called w/ two
non-option parameters, it will try to add the first paramater (username)
to the second (group name). So I tried the following:
ishamael:/# adduser root lpadmin
adduser: The user `root' doesn't exist.
ishamael:/#
Now it seems odd that 'root' doesn't exist, especially since I'm trying
to do this as root!!
Any suggestions are very welcome
TIA,
Monte
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