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To: Snob Art Genre <ben@narcissus.ml.org>
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Subject: Re: changing password... 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 15 Feb 1997 15:05:28 PST."
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Date: Sun, 16 Feb 1997 00:08:50 +0100
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From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.dk.tfs.com>
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In message <Pine.BSF.3.91.970215150342.11765A-100000@narcissus.ml.org>, Snob Art Genre writes:
>On Sun, 16 Feb 1997, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
>
>> In message <Pine.BSF.3.91.970215145642.11702A-100000@narcissus.ml.org>, Snob Art Genre writes:
>> >On Sat, 15 Feb 1997, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
>> >
>> >> 
>> >> Why don't we have an option for /usr/bin/passwd to input a precoded
>> >> password ?
>> >> 
>> >> 	$ passwd -c phk
>> >> 	Please enter encrypted password: $1$8cEEj84y$GCYmM39miP8Fc9K8iAHTI/
>> >> 	Please reenter: $1$8cEEj84y$GCYmM39miP8Fc9K8iAHTI/
>> >> 	$
>> >> 
>> >> I know that this is a good way to hose yourself, but it would also
>> >> have some useful features I think.
>> >> 
>> >> Comments ?
>> >
>> >Well, root can already do it with vipw, and why would anyone else need to?
>> 
>> Across an unsecure network it beats typing your password in cleartext...
>
>Ah, that's very clever.  How do you hash it in a way that the password 
>file would like?  Is it just a matter of running the password through md5 
>and prepending "$1$"?

man 3 crypt 


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