From: Thomas J Bilan (bilan@indian.uucp)
Date: 09/01/93 

From: bilan@indian.uucp (Thomas J Bilan)
Subject: Re: Setting up user accounts
Date: 1 Sep 1993 15:27:51 GMT

Thank for all the replies and for the benefit of newbies (like myself) I am
posting the solution:

I created a user id: useradd -m tom

but I forgot to : passwd tom
which adds a password to the shadow file (and probably other stuff) and from
there it worked. I also found that the -m parameter for useradd is extremely
useful because it creates the users home directory and changes the ownership.

Thanks for all the helpful replies.

Tom Bilan (newbie at large) 

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