[ale] crypt? passwd? faulty package?

[Jerry Z. Yu]

	yes. it should encrypted by crypt(). assume you are in a batch 
situation, you can pick a pass in plaintext, then run a PERLet, as such

perl -e "print crypt('PASSPLAINTEXT', 'Oz').\"\n\"";
to get crypted version, with "Oz" as the 2-character salt.

	If you are not in a batch situation, you'd do fine by issuing 
"passwd regularUser && passwd -f regularUser" as root. 

On Thu, 17 Oct 2002, Stephen Turner wrote:

#am i supposed to get a passwd from crypt or something? im sorry, i must be
#a complete idiot or have a faulty package somewhere, i just cant get a new
#user to work! ive read man pages and tried the options, even tried
#different orders as if that might matter, i dont wanna run the system in
#root but im thinking ive got no choice! i can allways su into my new users
#but i cant change thier passwords cause they dont seem to be valid, which
#stops me from logging in as them.
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