[SOLVED] how to Define password while adding a new user !!

1300 · 03-11-2012, 04:51 AM

Good Day Gents,,

am trying to define a password while creating a user but the user name wont accept the defined password after defining it
bellow are my entries and outputs

[root@rhel5 ~]# useradd -gusers -d /home/moew -m --password abc123 moew

[root@rhel5 ~]# id moew
uid=507(moew) gid=100(users) groups=100(users) context=user_u:system_r:unconfined_t

[root@rhel5 ~]# cat /etc/passwd | grep moew
moew:x:507:100::/home/moew:/bin/bash

[root@rhel5 ~]# su - moee
[moee@rhel5 ~]$ su - moew
Password:
su: incorrect password

Dark_Helmet · 03-11-2012, 05:14 AM

This is a common question.

Please see this thread. I provide a number of links at the end of the page.

EDIT: as a short answer to explain your issue, the useradd command expects the argument for the password option to be the encrypted form of the plaintext password--not the plaintext password itself. For your example sequence above to work, when prompted for the password with su, you would need to enter a text string that, when encrypted, matches 'abc123'.

1300 · 03-12-2012, 03:17 AM

Thanks alot Dark_Helmet,, your hints was so helpfull

I used this one
adding users and passwords with adduser
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...25#post4624525