krishnamurthy kandi wrote:
Hi,
I logged into my linux box as user,now i want create new user by
excuting the command /usr/sbin/useradd kimo then it is saying that
useradd: cannot rewrite password file
what should i do create new user from existing user.
thanks
For security reasons, only root can add or remove users.
You can ether log in as root, or use su to change to root.
If you want to give a user the ability to add new users,
look at the sudo command. Once you set it up, you would
then run "sudo /usr/sbin/useradd kimo".
Mikkel
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