Re: creating new users on debian

[Andreas Rippl <a.rippl@gmx.net>]

On Mon, Jan 31, 2005 at 03:46:40PM -0500, mack wrote:
> I'm doing research on creating new users on a debian radius server
> using a bash script.  I've been looking at adduser and useradd
> commands today, but can't seem to figure out how to fit it together.
> Adduser is an interactive command and for some reason the useradd
> command doesn't seem to be creating users correctly in order to
> authenticate.  I've read the man pages on these commands. Any help
> would be appreciated.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> mack
> 
> 
Hi Mack,


perhaps a stupid suggestion, but useradd with the -p option enters the 
unencrypted passwd into /etc/shadow, so authentification can't work.
The passwd needs to be supplied to the -p option encrypted.
A (non-interactive) way around is to not use -p option and to do
a '/usr/bin/passwd $username' in a second step. There is also a 
Shadow-Password-HOWTO which might have some info on supplying encrypted
passwds to -p.
 
Anyway, the README.Debian under /usr/share/doc/passwd says to use the 
adduser command...

Now, if you meant that user creation works and you only have problems
with the radius configuration, ignore this drivel.


Hth,

Andreas