Re: Adduser: strange -p option on RH5.2

[Arun Sharma <adsharma@xxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Aug 02, 1999 at 10:50:06AM +0530, Chetan Kumar wrote:

> 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 ???

This may have something to do with the MD5 based password scheme that
RH introduced instead of DES based ones. Also, you can enable shadow
passwords with RH 6.0.

	-Arun

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