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From: Adam S. on 13 Sep 2009 18:06 Hi all it seems that regardless to what parameters I use with user add, a user cannot be authenticated unless I break the command: useradd nuuser mkdir/home/nuuser chown nuuser /home/nuuser passwd nusuer Can anyone please tell me what I am missing? -- Adam S.
From: Adam S. on 14 Sep 2009 01:08 houghi wrote: > Adam S. wrote: >> Hi all >> >> it seems that regardless to what parameters I use with user add, a user >> cannot be authenticated unless I break the command: > > So what are you using exactly? > Begin with `useradd --show-defaults`. > >> useradd nuuser >> mkdir/home/nuuser >> chown nuuser /home/nuuser >> passwd nusuer >> >> Can anyone please tell me what I am missing? > > No, unless you say what you use exactly. > > I alsways use `YaST` but then that is only interesting when adding one > at a time. > > houghi Sorry. I though I included the commands I used. useradd testman -c "test account" -d /home/testman -p test123? -u 1003 -- Adam S.
From: Malcolm on 14 Sep 2009 01:35 On Sun, 13 Sep 2009 22:08:08 -0700 "Adam S." <none(a)none.com> wrote: <snip> > useradd testman -c "test account" -d /home/testman -p test123? -u 1003 > > > > -- > Adam S. Hi -m missing to create the directory and username at the end ;) useradd -c "test account" -d /home/testman -m -p test123? -u 1003 testman -- Cheers Malcolm ��� (Linux Counter #276890) SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 (x86_64) Kernel 2.6.27.29-0.1-default up 6 days 7:29, 2 users, load average: 0.04, 0.03, 0.08 GPU GeForce 8600 GTS Silent - Driver Version: 190.18
From: Adam S. on 14 Sep 2009 02:21 Malcolm wrote: > On Sun, 13 Sep 2009 22:08:08 -0700 > "Adam S." <none(a)none.com> wrote: > > <snip> > >> useradd testman -c "test account" -d /home/testman -p test123? -u 1003 >> >> >> >> -- >> Adam S. > Hi > -m missing to create the directory and username at the end ;) > > useradd -c "test account" -d /home/testman -m -p test123? -u 1003 > testman > Still no luck.. -- -- Adam S.
From: Jan Gerrit Kootstra on 14 Sep 2009 02:28
Adam S. schreef: > Malcolm wrote: >> On Sun, 13 Sep 2009 22:08:08 -0700 >> "Adam S." <none(a)none.com> wrote: >> >> <snip> >> >>> useradd testman -c "test account" -d /home/testman -p test123? -u 1003 >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Adam S. >> Hi >> -m missing to create the directory and username at the end ;) >> >> useradd -c "test account" -d /home/testman -m -p test123? -u 1003 >> testman >> > > Still no luck.. > Adam, The man page says the -p option expects the output of an encrypted password created by crypt. So test123? will be your hash and not your cleartext password. Kind regards, Jan Gerrit |