Open up a xterm, kterm, eterm or something called a term. type: man useradd You will have much better luck - I promise. It will also work on more systems (like the ones without KDE). On Fri, 9 Nov 2001, dlegion wrote: > I tried to add a user to my redhat 7.1 system using the Kontrol panel, add > user. when I try to login the screen blinks like it's going to take me > somewhere but it doesnt. My so called linux bible isnt telling me why that > is , or im just missing it. > > _________________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com > > > > -- //========================================================\ || D. Hageman || \========================================================//