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Date:      Mon, 06 Oct 2008 07:40:33 +0200
From:      Adam Zaleski <talk@holon.urwis.cc>
To:        "Ivan \"Rambius\" Ivanov" <rambiusparkisanius@gmail.com>,  freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: How to generate password hashes for vipw and chpass
Message-ID:  <48E9A4D1.6020008@holon.urwis.cc>
In-Reply-To: <89ce7f740810052214k4419d939s8bb8ebce5e703626@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <89ce7f740810052214k4419d939s8bb8ebce5e703626@mail.gmail.com>

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Ivan "Rambius" Ivanov pisze:

> # /sbin/md5 -s newpassword
> and then I passed the output to chpass. I tried to use the new
> password for the next login but it failed - so I believe this is
> wrong.
> Can you please show me how to generate the password hashes?

You can add new account with one command like this:

echo user_password |pw user add new_user -h0

Also if you only want to generate valid password hash
you can use 'openssl passwd -1 new_password'





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