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Re: Changing a account password

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From: Vikram V Asrani
Date: Sun, 12 Mar 2000 00:00
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MoJo <mojo@speakeasy.org> wrote:
=> Hi all,
=>       I have just recently started using linux ( Red hat 6.2) . I tried to
=> create a new account for a friend of mine. I got this to work without much
=> of a problem. My problem is I cannot set the password on this account. To
=> create this account I added the line

Rather use the adduser command. 

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Vikram.V.Asrani (vikram@eecs.umich.edu)
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From: Vikram V Asrani <vikram@eecs.umich.edu>
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