[NTLUG:Discuss] Re: Create User Account

[Dennis Rice]

I ran into this problem when I was teaching my class last week.  The 
answer is simple, but not what expected.  If I recall correctly, it did 
work back in RH 7.2.

When running the useradd newname -p password, the user is created and 
the new password is placed into the shadow file in clear text.  
Naturally this is invalid.

Athough I have not tried it out, I would suggest that if one created a 
new password using the command mkpasswd, if it is installed on your 
system, then copy/paste it into the original useradd newname -p 
{encrypted passwd from mkpasswd}, then when loging on it would work.  
But all of this is much harder than issuing the command pair useradd and 
passwd.

Dennis



Charles Cashion wrote:
I want to create a user account for my grandson.
The computer is running FC4.
when I ran
[root]# useradd -p sonofjohn bcashion
It created entries in /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow
and it created /home/bcashion
But when I tried
[root]# su bcashion
password: sonofjohn
it would not accept "sonofjohn" as password.
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