On Sat, 31 Mar 2001 MisteraSturno@att.net wrote:

> ...I did not set a password. I did not go into vipw. So
> is there a default password? Or alternately, how do I 
> make the "already-encrypted" password to use in vipw?

A newly created user being set up with truely no password would be a
disaster - evil hackers could log in as that person and then set their
password!

To set the password of a freshly created user do "passwd <user>" as root.

ABS

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