Re: useradd -p question

[William Warren <domino billhorne homelinux org>]

On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 04:05:40PM +0800, Roger wrote:
> Hi all
> 
> I am running RH8, as you know that after you create the new user with
> `user -p' comman the user will be locked and his or her password is
> saved as the clear text in shadow file. My question is how to active is
> new user?
> 
> Thanks in advance

The "-p" option allows you to specify the CIPHERTEXT for the password, not 
the clear text. You must edit the /etc/passwd file to remove the cleartext, 
and then (as SU), run "passwd <username>" to set a password.

HTH.

Bill