Redhat 6.1 Password Change

[Aaron Rykhus]

The RHCE book instructed me to add the user to /etc/passwd then run passwd.


>From: "Aaron Rykhus" <aprykhus42 at hotmail.com>
>Reply-To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux 
><redhat-install-list at redhat.com>
>To: redhat-install-list at redhat.com
>Subject: Re: Redhat 6.1 Password Change
>Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2004 21:21:28 +0000
>
>When I run passwd it says "Enter UNIX password"
>
>
>>From: Bob McClure Jr <robertmcclure at earthlink.net>
>>Reply-To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux 
>><redhat-install-list at redhat.com>
>>To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux <redhat-install-list at redhat.com>
>>Subject: Re: Redhat 6.1 Password Change
>>Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2004 15:39:17 -0500
>>
>>On Tue, Jun 22, 2004 at 08:30:27PM +0000, Aaron Rykhus wrote:
>> > I'm new to Linux so don't laugh if this sounds retarded...I installed
>> > RedHat 6.1 recently and have and can login to root and created my own 
>>user
>> > account that I can login to...I'm currently reading the RHCE book and 
>>it
>> > had me create an account with the passwd command.
>>
>>Umm, you don't create an account with "passwd".  You use "useradd" or
>>some GUI tool.  "passwd" sets or changes a password for an existing
>>account.
>>
>> > However, when I tried
>> > testing logging into the account it doesn't work (login failed). I 
>>checked
>> > caps lock and changed it again a couple of times but still no luck. Any
>> > thoughts???
>>
>>You're using a very ancient version of RedHat.  I seem to recall some
>>problem with password but don't recall the exact nature of it.  I have
>>seen passwd carp about your choice of password but go ahead and set it
>>anyway.  Are you getting any odd messages when you run passwd?
>>
>>I presume you are root when you run passwd to change the user's
>>password.
>>
>>Cheers,
>>--
>>Bob McClure, Jr.             Bobcat Open Systems, Inc.
>>robertmcclure at earthlink.net  http://www.bobcatos.com
>>Prayer should be our first resource, not our last resort.
>>
>>
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