Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2001 18:31:37 -0400 (EDT) From: Adrian Filipi-Martin <adrian@ubergeeks.com> To: Gregory Bond <gnb@itga.com.au> Cc: <stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Generating encrypted passwords Message-ID: <20010710182937.X24703-100000@lorax.ubergeeks.com> 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.) > > Is this something worth adding to (e.g.) pw(8)? If so, I can whip up some > patches..... I thinks this is what you want: : adrian@lorax; openssl passwd -h Usage: passwd [options] [passwords] where options are -crypt standard Unix password algorithm (default) -1 MD5-based password algorithm -apr1 MD5-based password algorithm, Apache variant -salt string use provided salt -in file read passwords from file -stdin read passwords from stdin -quiet no warnings -table format output as table -reverse switch table columns Unfortunately the md5 formats do not seem to be compatible with OpenBSD's use of them and I believe FreeBSD's is similar. If you got that working, I think all the interesting cases could be handled by openssl. Note, it does generate the salt for you. Adrian -- [ adrian@ubergeeks.com ] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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