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
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