adding a user

[manishrs at cs.bu.edu (Manish Raj Sharma)]

I am sure I am root ( coz I have been able to install a couple of packages
like real player on the box ). Also the directory /home exists
It's true that I haven't installed the system myself but had I not been
root I wouldn't have been able to install the packages.
I tried adding user by using the KDE user managemnet tool ..inwhich case
it did allow me to add the user but did not create the /home/xyz
directory. When I looged in using this xyz id.....the screen blinked for
a few moments, recovered and again gave me the login screen.
It's really weird but then that's what happened. 

On Wed, 5 Sep 2001, Derek Martin wrote:

> On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 06:07:20PM -0400, Manish Raj Sharma wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I am operating as root to a linux box that I have. I want to create
> > another user id for myself so that I don't have to log in as root
> > everytime. When I do 
> > adduser xyz
> > it says:
> > adduser: cannot create directory /home/xyz
> > Can anybody guide me how to do this. I hope I got my question clear.
> 
> Does the directory /home exist?  Is it mounted on a writable
> filesystem?  Is the filesystem full?  Are you sure you're really root
> (i.e. is your UID 0)?  This may seem like a silly question, but if
> this isn't a machine you've installed yourself, then the previous
> administrator of the machine may have changed the name of the root
> account...
> 
> 
> 

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