Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2001 07:25:03 -0500 From: GB Clark II <gclarkii@vsservices.com> To: Dmitry Morozovsky <marck@rinet.ru>, William Wong <willwong@samurai.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: adduser and passwords Message-ID: <01101207250309.42095@prime.vsservices.com> In-Reply-To: <20011012132915.J73101-100000@woozle.rinet.ru> References: <20011012132915.J73101-100000@woozle.rinet.ru>
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On Friday 12 October 2001 04:35, Dmitry Morozovsky wrote:
> On Fri, 12 Oct 2001, William Wong wrote:
>
--SNIP--
> adduser is written in Perl, and password hashing as doing there via
> crypt() perl function. However, there's no current way in perl to select
> crypt method, which is done by passwd(1).
>
>
--SNIP--
Hi,
Actually the password is generated by adduser using crypt. To get a MD5
password everytime, use a preset salt of "$1$". The system will then
generate a MD5 password all of the time.
GB
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