Re: \'useradd -p\' problems.

From: Gordon Messmer (yinyangat_private)
Date: Tue Aug 28 2001 - 13:01:25 PDT

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On Tue, 28 Aug 2001, joetestaat_private wrote:

>     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:

Of course not... Read the man page for useradd:

       -p passwd
              The  encrypted password, as returned by crypt(3) or
              an MD5 password generator.  The default is to  dis
              able the account.

That option is intended for use in scripts where the hash has already been
generated.

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