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Re: odd passwd problem.



On Sb, 03 aug 19, 09:57:27, Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Saturday 03 August 2019 07:08:08 mick crane wrote:
> >
> > I would probably add another user and see if they have same problem on
> > the local machine.
> 
> I'd thought of that but not tried it yet. I'll need a user amanda who is 
> a member of group backup for the backup program amanda.  So I'll use 
> that as a guinea pig.

I wouldn't mess with users needed by packages. Why not just create a 
'test' user or something?

> Or will I? copy/paste from konsole logged in as gene:
> 
> gene@picnc:~$ sudo adduser
> [sudo] password for gene:
> adduser: Only one or two names allowed.
> gene@picnc:~$                          

I'm guessing 'adduser' needs at least a name for the new user ;)

Kind regards,
Andrei
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