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

["Soumyanath Chatterjee" <soumya_chatt@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

They are talking about RH5.2 [PCQ ;-) flavour]

*adduser* command in RH5.2 is quite different from slackware version :-(. In
slackware just giving adduser <username> used to create a a entry with
default password same as username but not so in RH5.2

- - Soumya
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From: Atul Chitnis <achitnis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <linux-india@xxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, August 03, 1999 12:17 PM
Subject: Re: Adduser: strange -p option on RH5.2


> > 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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