From: allenm@sfu.ca (Allen Mar) Subject: Re: Setting up user accounts Date: Wed, 1 Sep 1993 07:36:39 GMT
bilan@cps.msu.edu (Thomas J Bilan) writes:
>I couldn't find adduser in my SLS distribution so I am trying to add users
>via useradd. Right after I add them, I see their names in the /etc/passwd
>file but I cannot log in! The passwd file is set for -rw-rw-r-- and
>there is no /etc/nologin file. I know I am missing something relatively
>easy because I haven't had this problem in previous installations.
After you've created the user with useradd, use the passwd utility to set
the password of the newly added user. Let's say you did a 'useradd tom',
then issue this command 'passwd tom xyzzy' for example. Now the password
is set for user 'tom'. NOW you can login as 'tom'.
>I even set up /etc for drwxrwxrwx but nothing.
>I'm getting a "Login incorrect" error message.
>Whe I played around with the /etc/shadow file I got to log in but it told
>me my password had expired and was going to let me change it but then said
>I couldn't, the password was locked.
>Thanks,
>Tom Bilan
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