John Mort wrote: > 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 > > > Ah, would have never guessed THAT to be the problem. Actually I was going to ask you to create an account (w/GUI) to see what happened, but assumed you had already done so. Also I incorrectly assumed that your buddy used the GUI himself (as an end user) to create the accounts and therefore illustrated something more serious was wrong. I made too many assumptions :-(...
I guess that explains why the root account was created correctly. Probably the correct way to set passwords is to just use the passwd command. Also doing that would fix the 'broken' accounts. useradd -G wheel -c "user x" userid passwd userid chage -M xxx userid xxx=days before passwd expired _______________________________________________ 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)
