Sometime Today, Binand Raj S. assembled some asciibets to say:

> > # useradd testid -p test
> >
> > is there anything wrong with this syntax.
>
> >From man useradd:
>
>        -p passwd
>               The encrypted password,  as  returned  by  crypt(3).   The
>               default is to disable the account.
>
> You need to give the encrypted password on command line. Since

Actually, you don't want to use the password returned by crypt, simply
because you want to be using MD5 passwords.  Create the user without
specifying a password, then use the passwd command to set a password.

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