On Tue, 20 Apr 2004 14:47:25 +0100, Paul Lam wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm pretty new to Linux (running redhat 7).
>
> I have recently added a new user by editing the passwd file, when I go to
> assign a password for this user using passwd I get the following
> error.
>
> Authentication token manipulation error
>
> Anyone any ideas, new user is setup the same as my own home user which is
> fine.

Adding users like that has not been the reccommended way of doing it since
the late seventies!

Try "adduser" command, or "man adduser" for more info. Later versions
of RH let you add a user through a gui from the menu, too, but I can't
remember if 7.? does. Adduser is in /usr/sbin and you need to be
root to run it, obviously.

--
Trevor Barton