[NTLUG:Discuss] Re: Create User Account

Thomas Cameron thomas.cameron at camerontech.com
Mon Jan 23 00:38:44 CST 2006


On Tue, 2006-01-17 at 12:10 -0600, Dennis Rice wrote:
> I ran into this problem when I was teaching my class last week.  The 
> answer is simple, but not what expected.  If I recall correctly, it did 
> work back in RH 7.2.
> 
> When running the useradd newname -p password, the user is created and 
> the new password is placed into the shadow file in clear text.  
> Naturally this is invalid.
> 
> Athough I have not tried it out, I would suggest that if one created a 
> new password using the command mkpasswd, if it is installed on your 
> system, then copy/paste it into the original useradd newname -p 
> {encrypted passwd from mkpasswd}, then when loging on it would work.  
> But all of this is much harder than issuing the command pair useradd and 
> passwd.
> 
> Dennis

No, this will not work, as mkpasswd does not md5 encrypt it.

Thomas





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