Re: Problems w/ adduser... says user 'root' doesn't exist!
Lo, on Thursday, January 11, Monte Milanuk did write:
> Ethan Benson wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 06:38:21PM -0700, Monte Milanuk wrote:
> > > 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!!
See Debian bug #80134; they've apparently already fixed this for the
version now in woody, though I haven't tried it myself.
Richard
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