Date: Sat, 21 Dec 2013 21:36:31 -0800 (PST) From: "M. V." <bored_to_death85@yahoo.com> To: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: setting encrypted password for a user Message-ID: <1387690591.75236.YahooMailNeo@web165002.mail.bf1.yahoo.com>
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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? - If answer is no, does anyone know how "salt" is being used in FreeBSD crypt for encryption? is it a simple concatenation,etc or it's more complex than that? thank you.
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