[Gllug] passwd and creating passwords

[Xander D Harkness]

I am able to create a password using passwd in interactive mode.

I would like to add a user using useradd -p hashed-password joe

useradd can take a password on the command line but it needs to be a 
hash ready to be placed in the /etc/shadow file.

How can I create the correct md5 hash as none of the man pages are very 
helpful.

Kind regards
Xander


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