Re: \'useradd -p\' problems.

From: Blue Boar (BlueBoar@thievco.com)
Date: 08/29/01 

Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:24:20 -0700
From: Blue Boar <BlueBoar@thievco.com>
Subject: Re: \'useradd -p\' problems.
To: vuln-dev@securityfocus.com, tsl@trustix.net
Message-id: <3B8C1A14.B410FBE0@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.

                                BB

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.
>
> BB