Adding Users Issue

[Jerry S.]

Hello Yellow,

  I have seen similar problems like this on other distributions.  If
  you pass "some" of the params for adduser, it is best to pass almost
  all.  In your case it is the combination of -p and -n, the -p does
  not appear to be working even by itself.
  ie "adduser -p <password> <username>"
  but if you:
  "adduser -n <username>"
  you will notice that the account does get created but is disabled
  (default action).
  then do a "passwd <username>" and change the user's password, the
  account works as expected.

  doing "man adduser"
  I see that -p appears to want the "encrypted" password!
 -p passwd
              The encrypted password, as returned by crypt(3).   The  default
              is to disable the account.

  Hope that helps a bit!
  jer

Thursday, March 3, 2005, 5:47:00 AM, you wrote:

DS> When I use the following command:

DS> adduser -p <password> -n <user name>     (- the password is a
DS> combination of upper and lower case letters and numbers)

DS> the account appears to be created.
DS> However when I try to login as that user I keep getting a login error
DS> message.
DS> I know I'm typing the name and password correctly. I thought I would
DS> check /home expecting
DS> to see user's newly created home directory, but surprisingly found /home
DS> empty!

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