Setting the password is done with the passwd command. You also have to put the user in a superuser group (probably wheel) with usermod -G wheel.
Sent from my iPhone On Sep 7, 2011, at 5:51 PM, Sue Sivets <[email protected]> wrote: > We're hosting a class sometime in the next week or two, and I've been > asked to create 8 userids with superuser authority on a RedHat 5.4 > system. I thought I had been fairly successful, but when I tried to > test the userids, I keep getting a password prompt, and at this point > I'm frustrated and not a happy camper. I hope someone can tell me what > I'm doing wrong. I also hope and suspect that it's something simple > stupid. I've got a couple of questions. > > First, what command and options should I be using to create the userid > w/ a home directory and whatever else may be needed, along with the > superuser attributes? > Second what option do I need to use to make these userids superusers. I > was told that their uid needed to be zero, and I didn't need to do > anything else. That's apparently not quite true. > Third, how do I list the userid after it's created? > > My initial attempt was the following command: > useradd -p user1 user1 > but it doesn't create a superuser. So then I tried > usermod -o -u 0 user1 > but I got an error message with --help info so I deleted the user1 > userid with userdel, and started over. This time I tried > useradd -o -p user1 -u 0 user1. > I still couldn't log on so I changed the password: > usermod -p xuser1 user1 > and I still can't log on. > > I know I'm missing something, but I haven't got the foggiest idea what > it might be. > > Sue Sivets > > -- > Suzanne Sivets > Systems Programmer > Innovation Data Processing > 275 Paterson Ave > Little Falls, NJ 07424-1658 > 973-890-7300 > Fax 973-890-7147 > [email protected] > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit > http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For more information on Linux on System z, visit > http://wiki.linuxvm.org/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/
