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bsdpruegelknabe
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Nov 03, 2008

create_user doesn't work or I'm to dumb?!

Hello,     the most possibillity is that I didn't understood to use create_user propperly...   Well, I hope anyone can help me here.   I use perl (yeah, I know, bite me... ;-p ) t...
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Joe_Pruitt
Dec 04, 2008
I just used the create_user API with a empty string as the passwd and this value was entered into /etc/shadow

 

 

joeuser:!!:14217:0:99999:7:::

 

 

 

I don't know much about external authorization but that seems to be what you are asking for isn't it? I just put a zero length string in the password field of the UserInfo structure.

 

 

-Joe