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Re: useradd -p stores cleartext passwords / shadow-980724

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (James Sneeringer)
Sat Jun 12 17:20:43 1999

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Date: 	Fri, 11 Jun 1999 19:32:03 -0500
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From: James Sneeringer <jvs@OCSLINK.COM>
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On Fri, 11 Jun 1999, Roche-Kelly, Edmund B. wrote:
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| I agree it's odd that it's not mentioned in the man page.

It was added to the man page in version 19990307.  SuSE needs to update
their package.  The current version is 19990607, available at

ftp://piast.t19.ds.pwr.wroc.pl/pub/linux/shadow/

-James

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