New users and firewall?

[RON FLORY]

Ron Flory wrote:
> When I use the following command:
> 
> useradd -n <user name>  -p <password>   

  OK, my turn to read the manpage...

   -p passwd
             The encrypted password, as returned by crypt(3).  The default
             is to disable the account.

  either enter the encrypted password, or follow up with 'passwd userid'
and enter the password manually.  The clear-text password will not be
displayed to the console.

ron