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From: Andrew Gaffney <agaffney@g.o>
To: gentoo-catalyst@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-catalyst] Add normal user to LiveCD
Date: Sat, 07 May 2005 15:02:49
Message-Id: 427CD880.3070107@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-catalyst] Add normal user to LiveCD by Arthur Henrique Zapparoli
1 Arthur Henrique Zapparoli wrote:
2 > How I Add an normal user to my LiveCD?
3 >
4 > I see s9omething like that on Caster Fsscript using adduser command,
5 > with -p option to set an password (encrypted). How I know the encrypted
6 > password I`ll need to use? I know the encrypted password is 13
7 > characters, but looking into /etc/shadow I cant get these 13 encrypted
8 > characters.
9 > How to get my password encrypted?
10
11 You can add your user with adduser and then do:
12
13 echo "newuser:password" | chpasswd -m
14
15 in the fsscript where 'newuser' is the user you created and 'password' is the
16 password you want to set.
17
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