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From: Ralph Huntington <rjh@mohawk.net>
To: "Karsten W. Rohrbach" <karsten@rohrbach.de>
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Subject: Re: Encrypted passwords
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> correct me if i am just stupid, but i don't get the point
>     echo -n passW0Rd | pw -u testuser -h 1
> sets the password of "testuser" to "passW0Rd", soring it in the auth
> system you prefer in encrypted form. am i missing something?

Dang! I coulda had a V-8! I *knew* that other thing was inelegant. 
Oh but not -h 1, rather -h 0, as in

   echo -n passW0Rd | pw -u testuser -h 0

or other handy varieties, e.g.,

   echo -n 'Better\!PWD' | pw -u testuser -m -s /sbin/nologin -h 0

Thanks Karsten.		-=r=-



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