adding admin as new user

[Donny George]

On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 10:38 AM, Charlie Kravetz <cjk at teamcharliesangels.com
> wrote:

> On Tue, 4 Nov 2008 10:18:39 -0800
> "Donny George" <donny008 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > hey
> >
> > i wanted to add admin as a new user on an ubuntu machine and it
> > wouldnt let me do it with the command useradd admin. it says this
> > group already exists
> >
> > i searched with these key words but i couldnt come up with a
> > convincing solution
> >
> > could someone guide me please
> >
> > donny
>
> You will need to use a different name. 'admin' is one of the system
> users. You can look at /etc/passwd to see all the users on the system.
>
> good luck,
>
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hey

i agree to wat u said, but earlier wen i had a gnome desktop i cud do it by
going to users and profiles on the system manager i think

but now i am using the fluxbox and i cudnt find a similiar tool. so my
reasoning was that if it was possible from the gnome then why not in fluxbox
too ?

donny
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