Date: Wed, 2 May 2001 18:02:57 +0300 From: Peter Pentchev <roam@orbitel.bg> To: Lee Smallbone <lee@kechara.net> Cc: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Subject: Re: useradd/adduser Message-ID: <20010502180257.B88365@ringworld.oblivion.bg> In-Reply-To: <200105021613.RAA25130@mailgate.kechara.net>; from lee@kechara.net on Wed, May 02, 2001 at 03:59:50PM %2B0100 References: <200105021613.RAA25130@mailgate.kechara.net>
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On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 03:59:50PM +0100, Lee Smallbone wrote: > I see what you mean about the synopsis...! > > From what I can see it isn't possible to supply the password to pw? > I'm using md5 passwords, and can easily have the script in question encode > the password prior to calling pw, so is it possible to use (in the verse of > pw), something along the lines of: > > pw useradd -n test -c "Test User" -d /home2/test -m -s sh $md5encpass > > ? You can't supply an *encrypted* pass; but then, you can't do this with adduser, either. You *can* supply a cleartext password to pw(8), just as Sheldon said, using the -h option: echo unf | pw useradd testuser -h 0 ..just tell it to read the password from fd 0 (stdin). G'luck, Peter -- I am the meaning of this sentence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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