Re: \'useradd -p\' problems.

From: Steve Mickeler (steveat_private)
Date: Tue Aug 28 2001 - 12:54:17 PDT

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On Tue, 28 Aug 2001 joetestaat_private wrote:

> Hi --
> 
>     On my Trustix 1.2 box, I noticed that creating a user with 'useradd' and
> the '-p' option (which gives the new user a default password) does not hash
> the password in /etc/shadow:

did you happen to 'man useradd' before posting this ?

       -p passwd
              The  encrypted password, as returned by crypt(3).  The
default is to disable the account.

"man crypt" would be your next adventure.

> This bug doesn't seem exploitible for two reasons:

Thats because its not a bug.


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