On Sun, 27 Apr 2003, Robert Denton wrote: > I am trying to use the kickstart post installation script to create a user > _with_ a password. I have tried: > > useradd -G root -p menace phantom > > To create a user by the name of phantom with a the password menace. This > didn't work and after a review of the man page associated with useradd, it > would seem that if you are going to include the password in this command you > need to supply it in an encrypted form (with crypt(3)) and I am not quite > certain how to do that. I also considered going the other route: > > useradd -G root phantom > passwd phantom > > But that requires further interaction and this doesn't seem to be possible > in a kickstart post installation script. Has anyone tried this at all? I > would appreciate any advice regarding the best way to do this. > Create the user account and then run usermod: /usr/sbin/usermod -p '<encrypterd_password>' <userid> To get the encrypted password, create a user account temporarily on another machine, assign it the password, and get the encrypted password from /etc/shadow. Werner
