I have a new Slackware 10.2 install and to make it a little different than the last one, I mounted /usr/local and /home on separate partitions.

After loggin in as root, I ran:
#useradd -ppassword donjulio

The problem was two-fold:
/home/donjulio was never created & I couldn't login with the password. I even used su to become donjulio as root and tried using passwd to change the password to know avail.

I read the man adduser and after deleting donjulio, did this:
#useradd -m donjulio
and
#useradd -m -ppassword donjulio

Both seem to create the home directory now, solving problem one, but the passwords still don't seem to work, so I'm still stuck logging in as root in order to become a regular user, which is weird.

Am I messing up the command? Is there some file somewhere that I can edit as root to change the password?

Alternatively, you can run the adduser script, which prompts for everything. It's a little simpler if the man page doesn't help you with useradd.

The password entered with the -p switch needs to be encrypted. Have you tried not assigning the password with useradd and instead using the passwd command (as root)?

http://www.slackbook.org/
http://linuxcommand.org/man_pages/
http://linuxcommand.org/man_pages/useradd8.html

Useradd usually asks you for name and passwword and group etc. one line at a time.

I'll try that, as well as the adduser script. thanks!

This did it! I used it before, but didn't even remember. Thanks!

You're welcome. Glad you got it working.

I think these 2 should be:
With space between the switches and argument, right ?

hi all ,
i have problem changing a passwd to user
it say :
passwd: Authentication token manipulation error
and goes back to prompt .
i'm the root user and running the passwd username command .
is there anyone who has any similar situation ?
does anyone know how to solve this ?
thanks