Solaris

O/S: Solaris 9
Architecture: SPARC

The man page for useradd states, "The new login remains locked until the passwd(1) command is executed."

This is a problem for me when accessing remotely via SSH and creating a new account from the console with useradd. As soon as I try to login into the new account, access is denied because the account is locked.

If a new user is created with the GUI admintool, there is an option for the password, "Cleard until first login."

I can't find a way to create a new user from the console where the password isn't set until the first login.

Suggestions / tips, please?!


Thanks in advance!

TuxSun1

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Right after you create the user, run the command passwd for that user and set a password. You should be able to login with that user and the set password. The password can be changed by the user

As root:

Code:

passwd user

Login as a normal user a/c first, su - to root, then do passwd username