Date: Mon, 6 Oct 2008 08:14:48 +0300 From: "Ivan \"Rambius\" Ivanov" <rambiusparkisanius@gmail.com> To: "FreeBSD Questions" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: How to generate password hashes for vipw and chpass Message-ID: <89ce7f740810052214k4419d939s8bb8ebce5e703626@mail.gmail.com>
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Hello, According to man pages of chpass(1) and vipw(1) I can create and modify users by supplying a user database entry in passwd(5) format. The only problem I face is that I do not know how to generate the password hashes for the password field. Following section 14.4 [http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/crypt.html] from the handbook I found out that my system is using md5 to encrypt the passwords. I tried to use /sbin/md5 to generate the hash: # /sbin/md5 -s newpassword and then I passed the output to chpass. I tried to use the new password for the next login but it failed - so I believe this is wrong. Can you please show me how to generate the password hashes? Regards Rambius -- Tangra Mega Rock: http://www.radiotangra.com
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