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Re: [suse-security] strange behaviour useradd / usermod
From: Sven 'Darkman' Michels (sven
darkman.de)
Date: Sun Jul 20 2003 - 10:16:21 CDT
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mailinglists wrote:
> Hi
>
> I have two suse 8.2 pro boxes and added approx 30 users to that system. It takes too long to do this with Yast so I did it with useradd which was ok so far. Once I change the users with usermod (especially the password with -p param) this user could not log on to the system anymore. Messages log said "wrong username or password".
>
> Has anybody ever seen this before?
if you change the password, did you use usermod -p CRYPTEDPASSWORD
or did you use a plaintext password? if plaintext, read man usermod
again ;)
HTH,
Sven
(btw. your wrapping su**)
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