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?
Thanks
man mkpasswd
Note that Debian has a different mkpasswd.
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