Rich Grise <rich@example.net> writes:

> On Wed, 17 Nov 2004 14:42:29 +0000, Thomas Ronayne wrote:
>
>> upro wrote:
>>
>>>Hi there!
>>>
>>>
>>>I have been generating passwords for users automatically with the
>>>following method:
>>>
>>>/usr/bin/mkpasswd -s 0 -v username
>>>
>>>I'm the sysadmin on a Slack 10.0 system.
>>>
>>>The passwords are generated (you have to wait some seconds), and there
>>>is actually something written to the /etc/shadow file. But they won't
>>>work!
>>>
>>>Can someone please help me, I have no idea why they should not work!
>>>
>>>Thank You In Advance,
>>>
>>>
>> Try the following.
> <snip>
>
> I don't understand all the gyrations to generate phony passwords
> that the users are going to change right away anyway. Just create
> each account with some really dumb password, like "password",
> and tell them, "Change your password first thing."

Problem is many of them won't...

>
> Good Luck!
> Rich
>
>

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