Date: Tue, 28 May 2002 18:38:12 +0200 (CEST) From: Lukas Ertl <l.ertl@univie.ac.at> To: Jamie Heckford <jamie@tridentmicrosystems.co.uk> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Creating Passwords from a perl script Message-ID: <20020528183704.E42679-100000@leelou.in.tern> In-Reply-To: <024301c20663$2795e8a0$4464a8c0@JAMIEHECKFORD>
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On Tue, 28 May 2002, Jamie Heckford wrote: > Im trying to have the passwords on our FreeBSD boxen created by a perl > script. > > Currently... the username/pass pairs are stored in a MySQL database. Easy > enough to get them, but > does anyone know a perl method of creating them in /etc/passwd? I know > getpwent grabs values - im looking for a putpwent if > there is such a thing and in the encrypted password form :) Have a look at pw(8), it has an option "-h" which might by useful in your case. regards, le --=20 Lukas Ertl eMail: l.ertl@univie.ac.at UNIX-Systemadministrator Tel.: (+43 1) 4277-14073 Zentraler Informatikdienst (ZID) Fax.: (+43 1) 4277-9140 der Universit=E4t Wien http://mailbox.univie.ac.at/~le/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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