Unbuntu 10

are you running the useradd as a admin ?

do a 'sudo useradd ..... '

Administrative tasks such as adding users require elevated privileges. On Ubuntu, you use the sudo command to elevate your privileges. You will be prompted for your currently logged in user account password when you run the command.

sudo useradd username

thanks,
is there a way for me to get a list of the users on the server? After I typed in the sudo useradd username it just went to the next cli line with no other promps or messages

you have two ways (potentially more)

sudo cat /etc/passwd

or

there is

sudo lastlog

which will list your users, plus the last login times etc

> After I typed in the sudo useradd username it just went to the next cli line with no other promps or messages

thats perfectly normal - the command completes with no output. You can use command line switches to set other options, or use usermod to change things post-creation.

Okay, I see my many many many users I've added trying to get this going...

I thought I would be prompted to set a password for the users when I created them but I wasn't. I'm typing in:

sudo useradd doej

I've googled & thought I could add a -p password to the end but this in not working.

just run a sudo passwd username to set the password.

woolnoir, one more question & you've got all the points...

is there a way for me to list all the users & see what permissions the users have?