Re: \'useradd -p\' problems.

[Gordon Messmer <yinyang () eburg com>]

On Tue, 28 Aug 2001, joetesta () hushmail com wrote:

>     On my Trustix 1.2 box, I noticed that creating a user with 'useradd' and
> the '-p' option (which gives the new user a default password) does not hash
> the password in /etc/shadow:

Of course not... Read the man page for useradd:

       -p passwd
              The  encrypted password, as returned by crypt(3) or
              an MD5 password generator.  The default is to  dis­
              able the account.

That option is intended for use in scripts where the hash has already been
generated.

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