[FC8] useradd anomaly - GUI or command line???

[John Summerfield]

Deepak Shrestha wrote:
>> 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
> 
man mkpasswd

Note that Debian has a different mkpasswd.


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