Re: Adduser: strange -p option on RH5.2

[Chetan Kumar <chetansk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 3 Aug 1999, N.A. Prakash wrote:

*>
*>On Tue, 3 Aug 1999, Atul Chitnis wrote:
*>
*>And by the way, a really naive question. When a new user is created with 
*>useradd, what is the default password set by the system? I just couldnt  
*>figure this out, and couldnt do a login. That's how i came to use that -p.
*>A simple 'useradd name' created a '!!' entry in the encrypted password 

That is by default account is locked, unlock with 
bash$ passwd <username>

Enter the passwd and use this......
OR Control-pannel, aduser and edit the user passwd.

- -Chetan S


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