Nicolas François wrote:
On Tue, Jan 09, 2007 at 08:14:52AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The user(s) was created using:
useradd -c "Real Name" -g group -m -p encryptedpass username
Referring to useradd manpage I used crypt() to encrypt the password.
crypt indicates that it uses only the 7 bits of each of the first eight
characters (in the default DES form of crypt).
Also, you should use adduser to create users.
I'm considering adding something like that in the DESCRIPTION section of
the Debian's useradd man page:
useradd is a low level utility for adding users. On Debian,
administrators should use adduser(8) instead.
Kind Regards,
Yes, I realize that now after studying crypt some more. By the way, the
reason for using 'useradd' was the need for making a script to add a
batch of users read from a file. That's afaik not easily done with
'adduser' .
A slight clarification in the man page for useradd would be nice I
think. Maybe also add something in the description of the -p option that
the described method (crypt) truncates the password to eight characters?
Anyway, thanks for the clarification.
Tina
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