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From: Wolfram Schneider <wosch@cs.tu-berlin.de>
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Jordan K. Hubbard writes:
>Am I alone in thinking that adduser's current default behavior of mailing
>the user their password in plaintext is somehow wrong?

I would rather remove the 'send mail to new user' feature completely.
This should be done with a mail client (pine, Emacs/VM).

Wolfram