-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 > Hello all, > When we do adduser or useradd at the shell,what is the default > password assigned for that new user? # useradd testing # cat /etc/shadow | grep testing testing:!:12696:0:99999:7::: Here you can see that the password hash is '!'. This isn't a valid password hash. You can't login with this password. Lothar -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFBYl9iWOkN8SqY+ZkRAj40AJsHQ/7JiQGd9j0P72yky67yOaRfJACeK4x6 gamkyW5wtMIGhnMZ4bKbkCE= =3VTM -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-admin" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html