[ale] Modifying Password from USERMOD command!

[Zhongbin Yu " <zyu at tc.net>]

password should be encrypted no matter in /etc/shadow or in /etc/passwd
as in traditional UNIX system. The purpose of shadow is to put
the encryped passwd entry in /etc/passwd into a highly-privileged location
no accessible to layman.
Even without shadow, the entry in /etc/passwd should be encrpyted.
something wrong with your usermod, or something in that line. OS, arch,
version of program will help other resourceful people  on this list to
further debug it for you.
2c.
Jerry Yu
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On Thu, 27 May 1999, Bhaskar Kumar Regmi wrote:

#
#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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