Re: adduser and passwd file(s)

[Gevaerts Frank]

On Sun, 16 Aug 1998, James wrote:

> adduser usually prompts you for a password.
> passwd allows you to change that.
> if the user can't log in at all, do the following (assuming you are root)
> 
> su username
> [su won't ask for a password because you are root]
> passwd
> [fill in as appropriate]
> [tell user what password is and make them alter it themselves]
> 
No need to su username , you can do passwd username as root.

Frank