Ubuntu Server 9.10 doesn't add user after install

[Shahar Dag]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Seth" <dragonrider66 at gmail.com>
To: <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
Sent: Monday, September 14, 2009 5:01 PM
Subject: Ubuntu Server 9.10 doesn't add user after install


> Hi,
> I downloaded Ubuntu Server to try on my iMac G3, the install seems to
> go fine execpt that it never adds the user when it is finishing the
> install. I made sure that I wrote down the password and login, but it
> said that there was no such user (or something to that nature).
> I have installed Ubuntu Server 6.06 for now and it seems to be working
> fine, but I would like to know if this is a bug in the PowerPC edition
> of Server? If there is a way to fix it, I would thank you guys so much.
>
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check /etc/passwd to see if the user is in the list
or
if you are using yellow pages, use ypcat passwd