Adduser: strange -p option on RH5.2

[Chetan Kumar <chetansk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello,

Adduser have an option [-p passwd]  see below. 

bash$ adduser
usage: adduser  [-u uid [-o]] [-g group] [-G group,...] 
                [-d home] [-s shell] [-c comment] [-m [-k template]]
                [-f inactive] [-e expire mm/dd/yy] [-p passwd] [-n] [-r] name
       adduser  -D [-g group] [-b base] [-s shell] [-f inactive] [-e expire mm/

This is option expect the passwd I give on the command line to be
encrypted. i.e. I add user  with command

adduser -p simple uraccount

Now an account uraccount gets created with passwd field in /etc/passwd
containing "simple". 

uraccount:simple:505:507:Red Hat User:/home/uraccount:/bin/bash.

Why is this so ???

- -Chetan S


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