failure to keep added user accounts

[Lowell Gilbert]

Warren <shinjii at virusinfo.rdksupportinc.com> writes:

> Each time i add a user via the adduser command the process goes through aok 
> and sais that it has saved the information when finished and yet when a users 
> command is issued there is no other user ... why would this be happening ?

users(1) shows the users who are curently logged in.
A newly created account which has never been logged in will not show
up there.  Try finger(1) instead.