I don't use useradd but vipw myself, but you can always set a user 
password by:

passwd [username]

make sure you are SU!

B.


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

> When I do this...
> 
> useradd -m -c "John Smith" -G wheel smith
> 
> ...to create a new user. And then when I try to log in
> as "smith" I get asked a password which I did not set
> like this...
> 
> # login
> login: smith
> Password:
> 
> ...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?
> 
> REASON I NEED THIS: I messed with the MSDOS partitions 
> and it caused NetBSD to not boot. So I did a total re-
> install on the whole disk. One big partition for Win32
> so I can install MSIE 5 (used by OptiPerl). But now, I
> am doing things over in NetBSD. No probs on the install,
> except for this new-user password enigma.
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> Gan in Kalamazoo
> 
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