[504] in athena10
Re: Suggested amendments to the Athena10 docs.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathan Reed)
Tue Sep 16 17:37:50 2008
Cc: William Cattey <wdc@mit.edu>, athena10@mit.edu
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From: Jonathan Reed <jdreed@MIT.EDU>
To: Tim Abbott <tabbott@mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.10.0809161728400.1869@vinegar-pot.mit.edu>
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Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2008 17:37:04 -0400
On Sep 16, 2008, at 5:31 PM, Tim Abbott wrote:
>
> I think you used usermod, not adduser when you wrote the
> documentation; usermod I believe is incorrectly not affected by this.
>
> There are ways -- it's just that the adduser command isn't one of
> them.
>
> adduser.debathena-orig wdc admin
>
> would work (you can read /usr/sbin/adduser.debathena to get a hint
> of what's going on here). Ther'es a prettier ways too.
>
> -Tim Abbott
The method I used, documented on athena10.mit.edu, is with userdel and
useradd, not deluser and adduser.
Or are they both NSS aware?
I will try a complete wipe and re-install of my machine tomorrow, to
ensure that the instructions are correct. Still, if they're wrong,
I'm sad that no one noticed until now.
-Jon
