fc3 useradd help

Fredstar · 09-03-2005, 01:31 AM

Ok some background...

yes i know this problem has been posted very much (i have read through a lot of search results on this forum and plenty others + google) however, i find it hard to believe that the only way to allow useradd to work is to disable selinux? FC3 has been out for how long and useradd doesn't work?

Well the problem is that i try adding a user with the following

Code:

useradd fatboy -g users -d /home/fatass -p somepass

All seems to go through and work ok but it wont let me log in

well any help would be appreciated

thanks

firedance · 09-03-2005, 02:09 AM

I beleve that the -p option is for encrypted passwords.

I'm not sure howto crypt the password the correct way.
You may be able to create the user, login as root and do passwd username

tuXfree · 09-03-2005, 02:10 AM

Try this one...

If "users" is primary group

groupadd users
mkdir /home/fatass
useradd -g users -d /home/fatass fatboy
passwd fatboy

If users as Secondary groups

useradd -G users -d /home/fatass fatboy
passwd fatboy

thats it ..

don't use -p bcoz it will not work unless find first the encryption of the word "somepass" using python.

Fredstar · 09-03-2005, 02:21 AM

AAhhh i see the error of my ways

thanks i knew it had to be something i was overlooking... I guess to much time looking at that man page will do that to you ><

thanks