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

[Todd Zullinger]

Deepak Shrestha wrote:
>> 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?

Use the passwd command to properly set the users password.  As root,
type "passwd username" (for whatever username you want to set the
password for).

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