HI When i create user without specifying the password and try to set a password after login as the new user using passwd it is asking for the current password for that id which is not accepting BLANK values as password. How to proceed in this case.
-----Original Message----- From: Philip S Tellis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2002 23:00:44 +0530 (IST) To: Linux India Help <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [LIH] user creation. > 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. > > -- > miracle: an extremely outstanding or unusual event, thing, or accomplishment. > -- Webster's Dictionary > > > _______________________________________________ > linux-india-help mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help > > -- _______________________________________________ Get your free email from http://www.graffiti.net Powered by Outblaze _______________________________________________ linux-india-help mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help
