[ale] Modifying Password from USERMOD command!

[Bhaskar Kumar Regmi]

When I try to modify user's info into passwd(shadow) file using
USERMOD(same for USERADD aslo) command, everything goes fine but password
is not encrypted. It stores the password exactly what I supply with -p
option. So using -p option seems useless. Command I issued is as follows:

%usermod -c "Test User for Few days" -p secretpwd testuser

/etc/shadow file entry is like this:

testuser:secretpwd:10738:0:99999:7::10748:136851236

How can i get the password encrypted in shadow file? 

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