On Sun, Nov 09, 2003 at 06:40:29PM -0500, Michael wrote: > /user/sbin/useradd -c "Latest user" -g free_email -n -d /u02/free_email/homes/latuser -p word999 latuser As others have said, you need a crypted password. The easiest way to do that is with "mkpasswd", its in the whois package on Debian. The following should work: /user/sbin/useradd -c "Latest user" -g free_email -n -d /u02/free_email/homes/latuser -p `mkpasswd word999` latuser -- Jim Crumley |Twin Cities Linux Users Group Mailing List (TCLUG) crumley at fields.space.umn.edu |Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota Ruthless Debian Zealot |http://www.mn-linux.org/ Never laugh at live dragons |Dmitry's free,Jon's next? http://faircopyright.org _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list