Re: \'useradd -p\' problems.

[Blue Boar <BlueBoar () thievco com>]

OK, now I'm getting notes from people pointing out that it IS in
shadow, if I would just read the note properly.  Had I caught that,
the first post would not have gone through.

doh.

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Blue Boar wrote:
> 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:
>
> Many people are sending messages to the effect of RTFM.  The way I read
> the query, he's wondering why it's not going directly into shadow,
> not why doesn't it hash properly.
>
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