Dave Gutteridge <dave at tokyocomedy.com> wrote: > Date: Mon, 03 Oct 2005 23:41:57 +0900 <snip> > >>> ---- >>> useradd -p PASSWORD -m roger >>> ^ needs a ^ >>> space | >>> | what are you trying to accomplish here? > > >The web page where I got the command said I needed it. Said it was to >create a home directory. > >In any case, I tried: >useradd -p password testguy > >and I still can't log in at the GUI prompt with the username "testguy" >and the password "password". I don't know what was on the web page, but when things don't behave as expected, it's always worth looking at a man or info page. In this case, you would see that you did not use the "-p PASSWORD" param correctly. Why? A qualifying phrase often overlooked, "... as returned by crypt(3)". Exactly how they intended to make this administrator-friendly is not apparent to me. I've not easily found a CLI that will return an encrypted version of a proposed password, allowing something like passwd -p `encryptit password` ... 'Course, my forte is not administration, so I may be just ignorant (at least, I hope that's all it is :)) ). Most folks just byte the bullet, even in scripts, and type it in at the console. Or grab an encrypted starter passwd (possibly copied from /etc/passwd or /etc/shadow (more likely) ?) and use that and specify that passwd must be changed upon initial login. ><snip> Bill