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Redhad 7.0
I want to use the adduser command to add user JDOE as part of the SALES group with PASSWORD BUCKO and leave the default path that of the sales group. And I want the new user login to be enabled.
adduser JDOE -g SALES -p BUCKO seems to create the user ok but JDOE cannot log in with password BUCKO for some reason. Any clues
I want to use the adduser command to add user JDOE as part of the SALES group with PASSWORD BUCKO and leave the default path that of the sales group. And I want the new user login to be enabled.
adduser JDOE -g SALES -p BUCKO seems to create the user ok but JDOE cannot log in with password BUCKO for some reason. Any clues
What's the exact adduser command line?
From the man page:
-p passwd
The encrypted password, as returned by crypt(3) or
an MD5 password generator. The default is to dis-
able the account.
IE., the password *MUST BE THE ENCRYPTED VALUE* not the plaintext password.
Indeed, if you look in your /etc/shadow file, you will see that for JDOE's encrypted password, it shows BUCKO.
-p passwd
The encrypted password, as returned by crypt(3) or
an MD5 password generator. The default is to dis-
able the account.
IE., the password *MUST BE THE ENCRYPTED VALUE* not the plaintext password.
Indeed, if you look in your /etc/shadow file, you will see that for JDOE's encrypted password, it shows BUCKO.
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Thank you. That works great.