Vulnerability Development: Re: \'useradd -p\' problems.

[Blue Boar <BlueBoar () thievco com>]

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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