Hello,
I am creating a user account on an esx host using the vi client. This is not a problem until I try to assign it a password containing any wildcard characters.
The error is "a specified paramter is not correct"
Is this normal?
it works fine when i remove the wildcard chars from the password
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trisoneeko
If it doesn't work it's a limitation of the VI client, and not the host itself. If you SSH to the host you can create users with the asterix '*' in their passwords.
If it doesn't work it's a limitation of the VI client, and not the host itself. If you SSH to the host you can create users with the asterix '*' in their passwords.
awesome
can you tell me the procedure for creating a new user via command line?
There are quite a few options available when creating a user, at it's most basic for you can just type "useradd trisoneeko", then set a password with "passwd trisoneeko"
usage: useradd [-u uid \[-o]] \[-g group] \[-G group,...]
\[-d home] \[-s shell] \[-c comment] [-m \[-k template]]
\[-f inactive] \[-e expire ] \[-p passwd] \[-M] \[-n] \[-r] name
useradd -D \[-g group] \[-b base] \[-s shell]
\[-f inactive] \[-e expire ]
Also - make sure to create a /home/* for the new users if they will ssh in to the host(s).
DB
That's all I need to know.
Thanks a lot for the help. Very much appreciated.
-trisoneeko-
I create the user in the GUI using the password 123 and then afterwards putty inot the serverwith that user and type passwd and reset the password to what I really want it to be.
