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?
Use the passwd command to properly set the users password. As root,
type "passwd username" (for whatever username you want to set the
password for).
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