As superuser try

passwd "latest user"

It should prompt for a new password.

Sam.

Michael wrote:

>Hi Guys -
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>Does anyone know what the password that Linux uses when you create a user from the comand line is?  I created a user using the following syntax:
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>/user/sbin/useradd  -c "Latest user" -g free_email -n -d /u02/free_email/homes/latuser latuser
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>This creates an account for latuser and locks the account.  I also see that there is a password entered for that user, do you know what that is?
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>When I sue the following syntax, the account is not locked but, again, the password is not "word999" as I specified with the -p option.
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>/user/sbin/useradd  -c "Latest user" -g free_email -n -d /u02/free_email/homes/latuser -p word999 latuser 
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>Does anyone know what the default password is?
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>Thanks guys,
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>Michael
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