adding users

[HarryGoiter]

i'm having trouble adding users to my computer. when I add somebody, I create a group of the same name as the user, set the login shell to /bin/bash, and set a password. whenever i try to login from the prompt in using that user, i get an "operation not supported". i've tried adding three different users. Any ideas? thanks

[Lorithar]

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why are you creating a GROUP with the user name?

useradd (usersname)

then edit /etc/group to put the user in an appropriate group

[HarryGoiter]

alright, so I try to add a user "guest" and he'll be of group "users". so I type in useradd -d /home/guest -s /bin/bash -g users -p somePassword guest. Still when I try to login under that user, I get an "Operation not supported" msg. I'm sure it's something simple that I'm doing wrong. ?????

[HarryGoiter]

Nevermind. Something on that line I was typing in must be wrong because when I type in only useradd then it takes me through one step at a time the login name to use, and then the shell, and then the group, etc etc. That worked like a charm. Thanks a bunch.