useradd with password

[denise gant]

I have been playing around with adding a password at the same time that I add a password. So far my syntax does not work. Here is what I used last:
useradd -g 600 -u 601 -d /home/dog -p <password> dog

[janischaffin]

From the test example, I used:

useradd -d /home/grrr -g klingons -G federation -u 2521 -c "Worf son of Megh" -p worf1 worf and it worked (i think!)

[denise gant]

thanks i'll have to check it out!

[keivn dodd]

-G, --groups group,...
With this option a list of supplementary groups can be speci-
fied, which the user should become a member of. Each group is
separated from the next one only by a comma, without whitespace.
If not specified, the default from /etc/default/useradd is used.

-g, --gid gid
The group name or number of the user's main group. The group
name or number must refer to an already existing group. If not
specified, the default from /etc/default/useradd is used.

At first glance -g and -G appear to have different functionality until you realize -g will resolve group names to gids.

[Rich Simms]

Be wary of adding user passwords with the -p option. If you use for example -p abc123 that password in added to /etc/shadow in clear ASCII text (not encrypted). The passwd command will do the encryption.