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From: Wolfram Schneider <wosch@cs.tu-berlin.de>
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To: Jouke Dijkstra <jouke@epsilon.nl>
Cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>, hackers@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: adduser mail
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Jouke Dijkstra writes:
>Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:
>> Am I alone in thinking that adduser's current default behavior of mailing
>> the user their password in plaintext is somehow wrong?
>
>This tweaks my mind. It's a users initial password. No-one can read
>without knowing it. 

Adduser ask for a second email address for initial message. This may
be a remote email address.

Wolfram