On Sun, 27 Apr 2003, Robert Denton wrote: > 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. The best way is to make use of the usermod and associated tools. e.g. /usr/sbin/useradd myuser chfn -f 'A User' myuser /usr/sbin/usermod -p '$1$CrackThisOnePlease!!' myuser Alternatively, we have just removed all post-install user creation how by moving to a centralised LDAP db of users, so we just need to setup LDAP with TLSv1 encryption by doing: authconfig --enableshaow --enablemd5 --enableldap --enableldapauth --ldpaserver=nameofserver.mycompany.com --ldapbasedn="dc=mycompany,dc=com" --enableldaptls This of course brings in some of issues :), such as creating home directories on boxes, automounting files, PAM LDAP auth etc.. whic can be mostly fixed by building our own RPMs to fix these issues. Hope this helps Gareth
