Re: adduser: Only one or two names allowed.
On Mon, Jun 18, 2007 at 17:38:27 +0000, Manon Metten wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I want to add another user to my system, but adduser won't let me.
> It complains with the error msg: adduser: Only one or two names allowed.
> I wanted to add a user with the user name "guest", but other names are
> also rejected. My guess is these two users are root & me (manon).
> BTW: I'm not running Debian in single user mode.
>
> Why can't I add a third user to my system?
>
> Besides that, I've lost my nice little kdm login window (to login to kde).
> If I can't add another user anyway, how do I at least get that window back?
>
> Linux debian 2.6.18-4-486 #1 Wed May 9 22:23:40 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux
As fas as I know, the error message "adduser: Only one or two names
allowed." means that you provided more than two non-option arguments to
adduser; it has nothing to do with the number of users on your system.
What is the exact command that you used? A simple "adduser guest" should
do the trick.
As far as the graphical log-in is concerned, try
/etc/init.d/kdm start
or
/etc/init.d/kdm restart
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