adduser-(related defs in /etc/passwd)

[saman_artorious]

Hi,
Saman:x:501:100:Mr.Spammer:/home/Mister Spammer:/bin/bash

what are x and 501?
as i know 501 is the USER ID, how can i manually set it when i create users.
(as i do for goup id -g & also the file that keeps information /etc/group)

any helps would be thankful

[NedSlider]

X is your password, or rather not your password (as it's actually stored in /etc/shadow as an encrypted hash).

You can specify the UID with the -u (--uid) option. See man useradd.

[saman_artorious]

thanks