useradd not asking for a password?

Question

I created new users from the terminal using sudo useradd -g mygroup testuser but I wasn’t prompted to set a password? why was that? the users have now been created but I need to set a password for them, so how can I do this?

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Possible duplicate of http://askubuntu.com/questions/462016/ubuntu-14-04-new-user-account — AliNajafies, Jun 28 '14 at 22:50
Use adduser instead: http://askubuntu.com/questions/345974/what-is-the-difference-between-adduser-and-useradd — muru, Jun 28 '14 at 22:54

score 11 · Answer 1 · answered Jun 28 '14 at 23:04

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It is better to create new users with adduser instead of useradd. In this way you won't have this problem.

answered Jun 28 '14 at 23:04

Charo

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score 9 · Answer 2 · answered Jun 28 '14 at 22:52

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to set a password for the new user I ran

sudo passwd testuser

answered Jun 28 '14 at 22:52

Mo.

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score 1 · Answer 3 · answered May 22 '21 at 08:11

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you can set the password with the root user after creating the user

root@yourpc:~# sudo passwd username

don't forget to run it on the root user. or you can just create your user with adduser that asks password itself.

For some reasons like -gid you might need to run the first command.

answered May 22 '21 at 08:11

Alireza Bahrami

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How is this different from Mo’s answer seven years ago? – matigo May 26 '21 at 14:02
its a whole lot different, more detail it has. I encountered this and I found this answer more complete. your welcome to ignore it :)) – Alireza Bahrami May 26 '21 at 17:58

useradd not asking for a password?

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