Solbu wrote:

>> One question, though.
>> How would the OP get from his runlevel 1 text console to a
>> state where he can run a GUI tool to add the user?
>
> It is a consoll GUI, like the Midnight Commander.

.... no such thing as "console GUI", unless it's in graphics
mode and some application is utilizing a graphics library.
MC is a text-output application.
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