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From: Gordon Messmer (yinyangeburg.com)
Date: Tue Aug 28 2001 - 15:01:25 CDT

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    On Tue, 28 Aug 2001, joetestahushmail.com 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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