Deepak Shrestha wrote: >> 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? Well.... You could use a script such as the one found at http://sial.org/howto/perl/password-crypt/crypt-example to generate the MD5 encrypted password and then place the md5 result as the parameter specified in -p. But, you'd have to be careful to escape certain character...such as the $. I guess the question is...what are you trying to achieve?
