On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 8:46 PM, Michael Quick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > I think you could do something like installing shadow-utils and using > pwconv to build shadow and then put in place the files. However, the > defaults with Fedora 8 have it setup already (since the first Fedora > release). I highly recommend just sucking it up and re-installing .. :-P >
Well all I did to fix it was reset the password on the accounts he had set up. When prompted I reentered the password and it encrypted it. The problem was just that he was ising the -p parameter thinking that you assign the password there. useradd foo -p password Instead of 'password', he should have encrypted 'password' and entered the results: useradd foo -p $1$asnheanhjuvarVAHE -- John D. Mort http://john.mort.net _______________________________________________ Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org http://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm) MHVLS Auditorium Mar 5 - Wearable Linux Computing Apr 2 - Building a Kernel the Debian / Ubuntu way May 7 - Setting up a platform-independent home/small office network using Linux Jun 4 - TBD Jul 2 - KVM (Tenative)
