Re: password encryption

[Charles Menzes <charles@lunarmedia.net>]

Yours is probably an easier method than what i found. Using OpenSSL, you
can use the openssl-passwd binary to generate the crypt version of a text
string. I think openssl however has some question surrounding it whether
or not its can legally be used stateside without breaking RSA's patent.

cjm


On Sun, 18 Jun 2000, Danny Sauer wrote:

> 
> On Sat, Jun 17, 2000 at 10:31:14AM -0500, Charles Menzes wrote:
> > 
> > I noticed that for the useradd and usermod apps, in order to use the -p
> > <password> option, the password needs to be entered in its already
> > encrypted state. Is there any command which can take a password, as typed
> > in by a user, and run the crypt function to generate the encrypted passwd
> > and return the value as text?
> 
> I usually use
>  echo password | perl -le 'print crypt($_, DS)'
> if I'm in a hurry, where the DS is the salt, and password is the password.
> 
> Sometimes I'll put a little time in and use
>  echo password | perl -le 'print crypt($_, (A..Z)[rand 25].(A..Z)[rand 25])';
> Either way works.
> 
> That's what I'm using in my LDAP-enabled useradd, usermod, and passwd programs...
> 
> --Danny
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