Re: Passwd fails - what went wrong?

[Kam-Ming Siu <ming@sunmoon.dyndns.org>]

Try 

adduser -G users lata

May be the group "lata" does not exist as you adding the new user. As I
know by default debian would not create individual group for new user.

Regards,
Ming

On Sun, Nov 07, 2004 at 07:07:00PM -0600, Ramasubramanian Ramesh wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>  I have not changed passwd or added user for quite some time. This has 
> been the case across several apt-get upgrades. Finally when I got to a 
> point I wanted to setup an account, I ran into the following difficulty.
> 
>    lata [root] 54 > adduser lata
>    Adding user lata...
>    Adding new group lata (1002).
>    Adding new user lata (1002) with group lata.
>    Creating home directory /home/lata.
>    Copying files from /etc/skel
>    passwd: Authentication token manipulation error
>    adduser: `/usr/bin/passwd lata' returned error code 10.  Aborting.
>    Cleaning up.
>    Removing directory `/home/lata'
>    Removing user `lata'.
>    Removing group `lata'.
>    groupdel: group lata does not exist
> 
> I suspect one of the upgrades have subtly changed something. I am not 
> sure what it is. All other things (that I tried) seem to work. Can you 
> tell me what is broken? How to fix it?
> 
> Thanks and Regards
> Ramesh
> 
> 
> 
> 
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