[ale] user created sucessfully :)

[Joseph A Knapka]

Stephen Turner wrote:
> well that was a pain in the butt time but i finnally got it to work,
> thanks to the guy that said just remake the password in root later :) your
> a life saver, as for creating the user and password at once, is there a
> better way? i mean first you have to encrypt a password then type the
> encrypted password in with the name and all that? id like to try names and
> passwords with time limits later but im afraid to! lol,

The way I've always done this (and what I always imagined was
the standard way) is not to specify the password
when adding the user via useradd, but rather do "passwd <user>"
as root. Is there some particular reason why you need to
do it all in one step? Incidentally, there's no reason to
worry about people logging in before you assign the password -
if you don't specify a password, useradd puts an "*" or "!"
in the password field, which effectively means "don't allow
this user to log in".

Cheers,

-- Joe


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