Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2001 19:48:34 +0100 From: ian j hart <ianjhart@freeloader.freeserve.co.uk> To: Gregory Bond <gnb@itga.com.au> Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Generating encrypted passwords Message-ID: <3B4B4E02.3F3173B4@freeloader.freeserve.co.uk> References: <200107100306.NAA21657@lightning.itga.com.au>
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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.) > > Is this something worth adding to (e.g.) pw(8)? If so, I can whip up some > patches..... > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message Does htpasswd (with apache) do what you want? -- ian j hart To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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