Bug 37971

Summary: useradd -p and usermod -p not encrypting password
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Linux Reporter: Joe Thompson <jtsmoke>
Component: setupAssignee: Bill Nottingham <notting>
Status: CLOSED NOTABUG QA Contact: David Lawrence <dkl>
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Version: 7.0CC: rvokal
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Description Joe Thompson 2001-04-27 03:06:26 UTC 
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Using useradd -p [password] or usermod -p [password] does not encrypt the 
password in the /etc/shadow file. Using any combination of double quotes, 
single quotes or back ticks makes no difference either. Using passwd --
stdin < [filename with password in it] DOES encrypt the password.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.useradd joe -p password
2.usermod joe -p password
3.
	

Actual Results:  vi /etc/shadow

joe:password:11439:0:99999:7:::

Expected Results:  vi /etc/shadow

joe:Qtqwk12KHnvgbOkD:11439:0:99999:7:::
Comment 1 Bill Nottingham 2001-04-27 03:11:05 UTC 
From the man page:

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