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

[Atul Chitnis <achitnis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> 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

I just checked adduser and useradd in RedHat Linux 6.0 - no sign of a -p
flag (man adduser or man useradd).

If you are not running RHL, your distro might have implemented things
differently - adduser is almost certainly a shell script.

Atul



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