The Ultimate n00b question!

[Nikosapi]

Where is the path file located in mandrake 10.1?
I hate having to type the path to run a command, especially if each path is a bloody paragraph long!
-->Nikosapi

[budman7]

What command are you trying to execute?

The most I have had to type for a path was "/sbin".

[Nikosapi]

well if I want to add a user to my server this is what I have to type:

/usr/local/apache2/bin/htpasswd /usr/some/path/passwords/somefile someuser

it'll save a little bit of typing...

-->Nikosapi

[loft306]

the command to add a user is

useradd -m -G users,wheel,audio -s /bin/bash <new_user>

without the <> and anyother groups that you want them to have seperated by a ',' then to set there password the command is

password <new_user>

also check the manpage for useradd

man useradd

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well that adds the user to the whole bax and that is what i do then i dont put them in wheel so they cont go root even if they had the root passwd




if you are just adding them to apache you can just edit the config to add them

[Nikosapi]

Could somebody just answer my question? Thank you for giving me another way to add users but I still want to know where my path file is located. I tried find and the locate command and still can't find it, help...
-->Nikosapi

[dylunio]

You can set your $PATH with e.g.

PATH=$PATH:/sbin

for example, and then put that in a file in your home directory named .bashrc (put in ~/.bashrc)

The universal file is /etc/bash/bashrc if you want to change the PATH for all users

[bigtomrodney]

Path is an environmental variable. type

echo $PATH

to see it. You will notice that it is seperated with colons. It is initially set in /etc/profile on login but if you want to modify it temporarily or to experiment type (for example)

PATH=$PATH:/sbin

This will set PATH to what it was and append the value /sbin.

[bigtomrodney]

Sorry dylunio, clashed with you there! Just goes to show how hard we all try to please

[dylunio]

Sorry dylunio, clashed with you there! Just goes to show how hard we all try to please

no need to apologise were all here and try to help, and we all contribute

[Nikosapi]

Thanks a lot, Linux is still a little confusing to me. Thanks,
-->Nikosapi