Thanks very much for Gianluca and all responses and my apolory for the off topic. Cheers. On 11/26/12, Gianluca Cecchi <gianluca.cecchi at gmail.com> wrote: > Actually it is off topic for this particular mailing list.... > Anyway: > 1) your command is ok if you use single quotes when directly putting > the encrypted string instead of double quotes > > $ sudo useradd -c "your user" -m your_user -p 'encrypted password' > > 2) or you could use what sugggested by Banyan using command > substitution ( `...` or the more Posix compliant and readable $(...) > mechanism) that works instead with double quotes > > Gianluca > _______________________________________________ > CentOS-devel mailing list > CentOS-devel at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-devel >