Ch. 33. Creating accounts with useradd.

I believe your machine is right as usually there are distros differences.

However, I can confirm that useradd does work in Centos 7

I used both Ubuntu 14.04 and 15.04.

In fact

useradd user1

only creates a new user named user1, but does not create the home directory from the skeleton. In the man page they say you need to add a param:

useradd -m user1

Reading the man page was helpful in this case.

Excuse me for intruding, but instead of opening new topic, let me hook up on this one as this is next step in this Lab.

Problem:

After creation on new user, exercise is to try 'ssh user1@localhost', which should fail because there is no password set - and it does.

So i set password for that user, checked /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow (password is really there) and i then try again 'ssh user1@localhost', which, i presume, should be OK this time, but it returns the same error 'ssh: connect to host localhost port 22; Connection refused'

It's CentOS 6.

What's wrong?

It is all in Solution - restart sshd service - and that's it!

Sorry. I'll be smarter next time.