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 PGP fingerprint: B7E1 CC52 5FCA 9756 B502 10C8 4CD8 B066 12F3 9544 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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