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

[Chetan Kumar <chetansk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 2 Aug 1999, Arun Sharma wrote:

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

I am not sure if you have understood my problem, this is got nothing to do
with encryption. The problem is that what ever you give with -p option
from the command line to adduesr, just sits in the /etc/passwd passwd
field, mean it is not encrypted. Something like parameter with -p option
expects the admin to give an encrypted passwd this is strange to me

- -Chetan S

*>passwords with RH 6.0.
*>
*>	-Arun
*>
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