Deepak Shrestha wrote: > Hi, > > I am trying to add new users in my FC8 machine. > > As root I issued command > # groupadd zion > # useradd -c "Some User" -m -g zion -p secret666 someuser > > now If try to login from console is unsuccessful > =================== > login: someuser > Password: secret666 > > gives me > > login Incorrect > ================== > > I open the GUI user manager and remove the currently created user and > added the user the same name and password and added him to the zion > group. > Now i can login with that name and password noramally. > > My Question > ========= > Is there something broken in command line tool "useradd"? No.... Read the man page for useradd and pay close attention to the -p parameter.
