Date: Sun, 20 Aug 2000 21:02:32 -0700 From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> To: D M P <dmp@aracnet.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Encrypting a password for insertion using chpass(1)? Message-ID: <20000820210232.H4854@fw.wintelcom.net> In-Reply-To: <39A099E1.51E6B546@aracnet.com>; from dmp@aracnet.com on Sun, Aug 20, 2000 at 07:54:25PM -0700 References: <39A099E1.51E6B546@aracnet.com>
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* D M P <dmp@aracnet.com> [000820 19:54] wrote: > I need to syncronize a server's user passwords to those in a database. > The database spits out cleartext passwords. I have to somehow get > those into the password database on the server. The first way I came > up with was calling chpass(1) and feeding it the new password, but > according to the man page, it will only take encrypted passwords, not > cleartexts. > > How do I encrypt a password so I can insert it using chpass? > > Is there another way I can do this? the 'pw' utility can help. -Alfred To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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