From owner-freebsd-security Wed May 2 8: 4:55 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from ringworld.nanolink.com (ringworld.nanolink.com [195.24.48.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3ED1437B423 for ; Wed, 2 May 2001 08:04:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from roam@orbitel.bg) Received: (qmail 90483 invoked by uid 1000); 2 May 2001 15:02:57 -0000 Date: Wed, 2 May 2001 18:02:57 +0300 From: Peter Pentchev To: Lee Smallbone Cc: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Subject: Re: useradd/adduser Message-ID: <20010502180257.B88365@ringworld.oblivion.bg> Mail-Followup-To: Lee Smallbone , freebsd-security@freebsd.org References: <200105021613.RAA25130@mailgate.kechara.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <200105021613.RAA25130@mailgate.kechara.net>; from lee@kechara.net on Wed, May 02, 2001 at 03:59:50PM +0100 Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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