Date: Mon, 23 Dec 2013 00:55:30 +0000 From: RW <rwmaillists@googlemail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: setting encrypted password for a user Message-ID: <20131223005530.352d08fb@gumby.homeunix.com> In-Reply-To: <79C9317F-84B9-4F8F-8D5F-4DE0B63ED056@fisglobal.com> References: <1387690591.75236.YahooMailNeo@web165002.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> <79C9317F-84B9-4F8F-8D5F-4DE0B63ED056@fisglobal.com>
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On Sun, 22 Dec 2013 05:47:08 +0000 Teske, Devin wrote: > > On Dec 21, 2013, at 9:36 PM, M. V. wrote: > > > hello, > > > > I'm using FreeBSD-8.2. I have a program which sends "MD5 > > of the new password" of a user to me, and I want to reset user's > > password with it. I realized I can use "chpass" to set encrypted > > password for a user, but it needs salt and I couldn't make it work > > without it. so I wanted to know: > > - can I set user's password in FreeBSD if I have only MD5 of the > > password? how? > > > > echo 'MD5-HASH' | pw usermod username -H 0 Presumably that's just a way inserting the salted hash. If you simply have the md5 of a password it shouldn't be possible to create a password entry.
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