Bug 66844 – The option "-p"in the useradd tool didn`t encrypt the password

Bug 66844 - The option "-p"in the useradd tool didn`t encrypt the password

Summary:	The option "-p"in the useradd tool didn`t encrypt the password

Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG

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Product:	Red Hat Linux
Classification:	Retired
Component:	shadow-utils (Show other bugs)
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Version:	7.3
Hardware:	i386 Linux

Priority	medium Severity medium
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Assigned To:	Nalin Dahyabhai
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Reported:	2002-06-17 13:55 EDT by Thiago Dourado
Modified:	2008-05-01 11:38 EDT (History)
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Last Closed:	2002-06-17 14:21:45 EDT
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Description Thiago Dourado 2002-06-17 13:55:42 EDT

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User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows 98; TUCOWS)

Description of problem:
When I use de option -p with que useradd tool the password field in the shadow 
file is not encryted and the user could not login before the administrator 
change the password

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How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.# useradd danielad -p daniela123 -G wheel -c "Daniela Daros -- EBSD"
2. # more /etc/passwd | grep danielad
> danielad:x:509:510:Daniela Daros -- EBSD:/home/danielad:/bin/bash
3.# more /etc/shadow | grep danielad
> danielad:daniela123:11850:0:186:7:::
	

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Comment 1 Trond Eivind Glomsrxd 2002-06-17 14:21:38 EDT

The man page clearly states that "-p" is for the encrypted password, not a
plaintext one.

Also, useradd is not part of the unarj package.

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