bash: useradd: comand not found using telnet su
James Sutherland
jas88 at cam.ac.uk
Fri Jul 21 16:48:19 GMT 2000
On Fri, 21 Jul 2000, Damen Rund wrote:
> Hello,
>
> once again I'm stumped. I telnet into my Linux box as myself then run a
> su command to login as root, then I want to add a user so I run the
> useradd command and get the response "bash: useradd: command not found"
>
> however if I goto the Linux box and log in as root I can use the useradd
> command with no problem.
>
> THANK YOU :-)
This will be a result of "useradd" not being in YOUR user PATH variable.
When you log in as yourself, PATH is set for you; a simple "su" does not
then change it. Logging directly in as root, however, sets PATH to root's
value for this.
Solution: use "su -" in place of "su". This will give you root's user
settings in place of your own.
Incidentally, this is NOT a Samba related question, so you're on the wrong
list :-)
James.
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