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Subject: Re: Generating encrypted passwords 
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> Here's another example:
> http://www.lanexperts.com/mengle/programming/perl/genpw/genpw.pl

You misunderstand me.  The problem is not to generate a suitable plaintext
password, the problem is to generate the encrypted version once you have a
plaintext. AFAICT the only programs in FreeBSD that can do that (passwd(1) and
pw(8)) only operate on /etc/master.passwd.




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