Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1998 18:33:47 +0100 From: Ben Smithurst <ben@scientia.demon.co.uk> To: Roman Katsnelson <romank@graphnet.com>, "q's" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: manual password encryption Message-ID: <19980911183347.C2586@scientia.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <35F93AC5.479E89D5@graphnet.com> References: <35F93AC5.479E89D5@graphnet.com>
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Roman Katsnelson wrote: > I wanna match this to: > > grep -e "$name" /etc/passwd | cut -d":" -f1 # will yield user name > grep -e "$name" /etc/passwd | cut -d":" -f2 # will yield password > > can I manually encrypt the value of $pwd in the above example so that it > matches the grep | cut output? It uses crypt(), I beleive, but I know bugger all about that. Read the perl ``adduser'' script, that may give you some clues as to how to acheive it. -- Ben Smithurst : ben@scientia.demon.co.uk : http://www.scientia.demon.co.uk/ PGP: 0x99392F7D - 3D 89 87 42 CE CA 93 4C 68 32 0E D5 36 05 3D 16 http://www.scientia.demon.co.uk/ben/pgp-key.html (or use keyservers) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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