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Date:      Tue, 10 Jul 2001 15:11:56 +1200 (NZST)
From:      Juha Saarinen <juha@saarinen.org>
To:        Gregory Bond <gnb@itga.com.au>
Cc:        "stable@freebsd.org" <stable@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Generating encrypted passwords
Message-ID:  <Pine.LNX.4.33.0107101511400.326-100000@vimfuego.saarinen.org>
In-Reply-To: <200107100306.NAA21657@lightning.itga.com.au>

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On Tue, 10 Jul 2001, Gregory Bond wrote:

> I need to generate some encrypted passwords in a config file for an
> application (i.e. not in /etc/master.passwd).
>
> AFAICT there are no utilities in FreeBSD 4 that will do this. So I whipped up a
> 10-line perl script to build a random salt, get the password and call crypt().
> This is OK, but uglier and harder than it needs to be (as I had to fossick
> around a bit to find the right way to generate a salt.)

Here's another example:
http://www.lanexperts.com/mengle/programming/perl/genpw/genpw.pl

-- 
Regards,


Juha

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