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From: Gabor Zahemszky <zgabor@CoDe.hu>
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Subject: Re: Help generating passwords for Apache users
To: fqueries@jraynard.demon.co.uk (James Raynard)
Date: Mon, 13 May 1996 15:49:19 +0000 (GMT)
Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
In-Reply-To: <199605092033.UAA11147@jraynard.demon.co.uk> from "James Raynard" at May 9, 96 08:33:21 pm
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> > Is there a utility in FreeBSD to generate encrypted passwords ( for use 
> > in an Apache users file )
> > or do I have to write a script myself using crypt() !?
> > 
> > Can I use adduser and then cut/paste from the passwd file?
> 
> You'd have to use vipw to view the encrypted password, as the passwd
> file is shadowed and has a '*' where the password would be. And you
> have to be root to run vipw.
> 
> It may well be more practical to write a short Perl script using the
> crypt() function - this is how adduser uses it:-
> 
> $cryptpwd = crypt($password, &salt) if $password ne "";
> 

I don't know, but if I remember well, there is a makekey utility, to
do it from command line.  (OK, I know that it is an AT&T command, and
not so popular in a BSD-base user land.)


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