useradd -p problem

gizbon · 11-10-2002, 04:11 PM

when I use adduser -p password mick it adds the user but when I try and login it excepts the user but not the passwd
Am I doing something wrong

markus1982 · 11-10-2002, 04:47 PM

-p does NOT mean that following is a cleartext password. -p means that you have to supply the password as returnd by crypt. For more details please consider checking the manpage of useradd.

Use useradd WITHOUT -p and later password <username> to set the password!

gizbon · 11-11-2002, 12:38 PM

Thanks I understand the above but is it possible to do it all in one line without having to do the passwd user and then supply the passwd

markus1982 · 11-11-2002, 02:38 PM

Using a perl script ... check crypt for more details

gizbon · 11-11-2002, 03:03 PM

will have a look thanks