UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi,

Just got a dedicated server account for web hosting. I have some linux experience since the past 3 months I've been using SuSE and aint even touvhed windows but now I know I've relied too much on KDE's friendly tools to do some of the admin stuff.

I'm trying to add a user from the root account using SSH. I want this user to be in the group "users".

This is what I'm doing:

Code:

useradd -d /home/d11wtq -m -s /bin/bash -e 2010-07-10 -g users -p mypass d11wtq

It all *appears* to go okay so I try

Code:

ssh d11wtq@localhost

It asks me for my password as expected then pauses and asks me again, after 3 attempts it just says session inactive and throws me out (like the password is wrong).

Could somebody explain where I'm going wrong here? I feel like such a n00b now

Cheers,

d11

(Do I need to do something else before the user "d11wtq" can use SSH?)

EDIT | If it helps this a Gentoo Linux server

Ah OK thanks never mind

I needed to (as root) run this command afterwards:

Code:

passwd d11wtq

I should have known that since I run passwd on a 30 day cycle anyway, I just hadn't thought about giving it a username paramater.

Remember that -p mypass allows you to specify an encrypted password as returned by crypt(3). Are you sure that you encrypted the password properly? Try using the passwd command to reset the password.

or use:
unset HISTFILE
this command will stop writing to ~/.bash_history (for security)

?? will that also stop the handy UpArrow feature too for us lazy typist ??

Why are we talking about shell history all of a sudden? I feel like I'm watching Eraserhead or something.

This will now stop