Set pre-encrypted passwords for users

[Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn]

On Wed, 31 Mar 2010, Joel Merrick wrote:

> Use useradd or usermod
>
> ie..
>
> useradd -o -s /bin/bash -p $ENCPASS user

But that will make $ENCPASS visible with:

	$ tr '\0' ' ' < /proc/PID/cmdline

for a moment.  Isn't reading from a file descriptor is the prefered
method for doing that?


Cheers,

-- 
Cristian