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?

Thanks

Solution 1

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

Solution 2

to set a password for the new user I ran

sudo passwd testuser

Solution 3

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.

Comments

[AliN]

Possible duplicate of askubuntu.com/questions/462016/ubuntu-14-04-new-user-account

[muru]

Use adduser instead: askubuntu.com/questions/345974/…

[matigo]

How is this different from Mo’s answer seven years ago? 🤔

[Alireza Bahrami]

its a whole lot different, more detail it has. I encountered this and I found this answer more complete. your welcome to ignore it :))