I've resurrected a linux box that had RH7.something installed, current
kernel is 2.8.18. Anyway, the user accounts (all one of them) I had setup
before work fine.
I can't for the life of me add a new one though, because the password
doesn't seem to be getting handled correctly.
When I do 'useradd -g mailer -p test mynewuser', an entry ends up in
/etc/shadow that looks like
mynewuser:test:...... In other words the cleartext password is in the
shadow file. I can't change it or log in. If I specify no password (no -p)
it doesn't work either.
I've run the pwconv program, nothing seems to help.
Any clues? I played with this for two hours and couldn't make any sense of
it.
I did find an article on line where someone had the same symptoms and pwconv
fixed it, but I can't make it work.
Thanks.
Jim - lurker for years, but hope to contribute more.
