[FC8] useradd anomaly - GUI or command line???
Deepak Shrestha
d88pak at gmail.com
Tue Dec 4 07:30:43 UTC 2007
> No... It meas that the password provided must already be in encrypted
> format. "The encrypted password, as returned by crypt".
>
> You can see the results of your command by looking in /etc/shadow after you
> use the "useradd" command. You will see the password field contains
> "secret666".
in /etc/shadow
I can see the password of newly created user through useradd in plain
text (as you said) but the user password of other users created from
GUI is encrypted (something like $lkd090s909.......).
what does that mean and how can I make that user to be able to log in?
Thanks
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