On Tue, 26 Oct 2004 09:43:15 +0200 (CEST) "Ulrik S. Kofod" usk@cybersite.dk disait:
I installed CentOS 3.3 some time ago and the first thing I did after the install was to run a little script that adds my user plus a few other things.
The script adds my user like this
USER="ulrik" PASSWD="<mypasswd>" /usr/sbin/adduser $USER -p $PASSWD
It seemed to work fine except I couldn't login? I searched Google for reasons why I could only login via ssh as root and was about to send a long mail to this list, when I decided to change the password and try to login again, and this time it worked?
Doesn't the -p option work on adduser anymore? It did on my redhat9 where I used the same script and the -p option is still on the man page for adduser.
I noticed that the same option for smbpasswd had been removed but adduser didn't complain.
Just curious why :) Ulrik
man adduser:
-p passwd The encrypted password, as returned by crypt(3). The default is to disable the account.
Here it is your answer ! ;)