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It sounds like you are trying to assign a UID that is already taken.
You need to grep for UID 100 in your passwd file or ypmatch it in
passwd.byuid if you are using NIS.  This will return who is assigned the
UID 100.  If you want to use useradd and assign a different UID use
the -u flag.  However, it should assign a number not already in use.
Hope this helps.
In article <vO8y4.51708$Pa1.1325518@news6.giganews.com>,
  "Matthew J. Salerno" <Msalerno@tengines.com> wrote:
> Please let me know how I can get useradd to work.  Every time I attemt
to
> add a new user I get the following error :
> UX: useradd: ERROR: uid 100 is already in use.  Choose another.
>
> I know that there are other ways to add users, but all of my scripts
use
> useradd.  Please help.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Matt
>
>


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On Fri, 10 Mar 2000 17:12:36 GMT, alowance@my-deja.com wrote:
>It sounds like you are trying to assign a UID that is already taken.
>You need to grep for UID 100 in your passwd file or ypmatch it in
>passwd.byuid if you are using NIS.  This will return who is assigned the
>UID 100.  If you want to use useradd and assign a different UID use
>the -u flag.  However, it should assign a number not already in use.
>Hope this helps.

no, the original poster is just trying to use the defaults. But useradd
is not giving the appropriate error message.
I hit this when I "tighten up" permissions on some firewall boxes. useradd
no longer works, unless you manually specify the UID with -u.
probably becuase useradd is using some interesting getxxxxent calls that I
dont remember right now, and needs somewhat lax permissions in places to
dothis.

Similar to
"pkgadd wont run if user nobody does not have permission to write to...
[?]"


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