Subject: Re: More on adding a user
To: netbsd-help <netbsd-help@netbsd.org>
From: James K. Lowden <jklowden@schemamania.org>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 01/06/2002 14:53:47
On Sun, Jan 06, 2002 at 10:58:54AM -0800, Joe Hylkema wrote:
> The useradd manpage makes reference to a default encrypted password in
> /etc/usermgmt.conf.  How does one add that?

Joe, 

AIUI, you set some user's password with passwd, then use vipw (or,
grep username /etc/master.passwd) to see the encrypted password.
That's the string to put in /etc/usermgmt.conf.

Don't know where I read about it.  Can't seem to find it now.  

--jkl