Creating New User In Linux

From: Balaji.M (balaji.muniraja_at_db.com)
Date: 02/26/04

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Date: 26 Feb 2004 09:17:55 -0800

Hi,
In Linux i have logged in as Root and trying to create a new user with
the command adduser -m username. It gives an error message saying that
'cannot create user'.

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