Date: Mon, 23 Dec 2013 02:50:07 +0000 From: "Teske, Devin" <Devin.Teske@fisglobal.com> To: RW <rwmaillists@googlemail.com> Cc: Devin Teske <dteske@freebsd.org>, "Teske, Devin" <Devin.Teske@fisglobal.com>, FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: setting encrypted password for a user Message-ID: <1FCEF95A-F37A-4A57-B3A8-AE67776749BE@fisglobal.com> In-Reply-To: <20131223005530.352d08fb@gumby.homeunix.com> References: <1387690591.75236.YahooMailNeo@web165002.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> <79C9317F-84B9-4F8F-8D5F-4DE0B63ED056@fisglobal.com> <20131223005530.352d08fb@gumby.homeunix.com>
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On Dec 22, 2013, at 4:55 PM, RW wrote: > On Sun, 22 Dec 2013 05:47:08 +0000 > Teske, Devin wrote: >=20 >>=20 >> On Dec 21, 2013, at 9:36 PM, M. V. wrote: >>=20 >>> hello, >>>=20 >>> I'm using FreeBSD-8.2. I have a program which sends "MD5=20 >>> 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? >>>=20 >>=20 >> echo 'MD5-HASH' | pw usermod username -H 0 >=20 > 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. RW is correct, if what is sent to you does not look like "$1$blah$moreblah" then you don't have a hash, but a digest. You cannot turn a digest into a hash because that would require getting at the data that was digested. The ``echo ... | pw ...'' command I gave is only going to work if you have a hash (looks like "$1$blah$moreblah") and not a digest (looks like "blah"). --=20 Devin _____________ The information contained in this message is proprietary and/or confidentia= l. If you are not the intended recipient, please: (i) delete the message an= d all copies; (ii) do not disclose, distribute or use the message in any ma= nner; and (iii) notify the sender immediately. In addition, please be aware= that any message addressed to our domain is subject to archiving and revie= w by persons other than the intended recipient. Thank you.
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