Is There Anyone Still Using Suse 9.3? Please Help... zzz
 

In Suse9.3, is it possible to add a user via directly editing the file /etc/passwd?

I manually inserted a new line below into the passwd file:
exuser::3:3::/:/bin/bash

But when I
>su exuser
in bash, there is no prompt of entering any password, and it just prompted
su: incorrect password

Well, I suppose the password for this new user should be blank. ...What's possibly going wrong?

Is there anyone having a test of this?


:) Many 3ks!

You need to use the useradd command.

Or use yast.

Well, I am just curious about this. Because I can add user in this way under many other Linux OSs but only except this Suse 9.3....why?

Because Suse uses shadow password files, usually blowfish, and su is only granted to known users. You can manually edit a bunch of files but why bother. That is what the useradd program is for, and you can run if from a script.