I haven't seen anyone mention this, but the user's password is disabled on
creation.  Note that I don't mean "disabled", I mean that the user is there,
but has no usable password.  That's why everyone is recommending you set the
password with 'passwd' as a second step.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: port-i386-owner@netbsd.org [mailto:port-i386-owner@netbsd.org]On
> Behalf Of Ben Bogart - FMPM/F1999
> Sent: Saturday, March 31, 2001 11:32 AM
> To: MisteraSturno@att.net
> Cc: port-i386@netbsd.org
> Subject: Re: Default new-user password?
>
>
> I don't use useradd but vipw myself, but you can always set a user
> password by:
>
> passwd [username]
>
> make sure you are SU!
>
> B.
>
>
> On Sat, 31 Mar 2001 MisteraSturno@att.net wrote:
>
> > When I do this...
> >
> > useradd -m -c "John Smith" -G wheel smith
> >
> > ...to create a new user. And then when I try to log in
> > as "smith" I get asked a password which I did not set
> > like this...
> >
> > # login
> > login: smith
> > Password:
> >
> > ...I did not set a password. I did not go into vipw. So
> > is there a default password? Or alternately, how do I
> > make the "already-encrypted" password to use in vipw?
> >
> > REASON I NEED THIS: I messed with the MSDOS partitions
> > and it caused NetBSD to not boot. So I did a total re-
> > install on the whole disk. One big partition for Win32
> > so I can install MSIE 5 (used by OptiPerl). But now, I
> > am doing things over in NetBSD. No probs on the install,
> > except for this new-user password enigma.
> >
> > Thanks in advance,
> >
> > Gan in Kalamazoo
> >
> > --
> > Legu la sciencajn fikciaj^on de fama au^toro Jack
> > Vance in Esperanta traduko!
> >
> > <a
> > href="http://home.att.net/~misterasturno/index.html">
> > Vizitu g^in nun!</a>
> >
> >
> >
>
>
>
> B. Bogart
> Convergent Media Designer
> --------------------------
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>
>
>