> 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? Thanks
