[FC8] useradd anomaly - GUI or command line???

[Deepak Shrestha]

> No...  It meas that the password provided must already be in encrypted
> format.  "The encrypted password, as returned by crypt".
>
> You can see the results of your command by looking in /etc/shadow after you
> use the "useradd" command.  You will see the password field contains
> "secret666".

in /etc/shadow

I can see the password of newly created user through useradd in plain
text (as you said) but the user password of other users created from
GUI is encrypted (something like $lkd090s909.......).

what does that mean and how can I make that user to be able to log in?

Thanks