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From: dannyman <dannyman@toldme.com>
To: Lowell Gilbert <lowell@world.std.com>
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Subject: Re: adduser
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On Tue, Feb 27, 2001 at 09:54:14AM -0500, Lowell Gilbert wrote:
> sudz@ns3g.com (Colin Legendre) writes:
> 
> > I am running freebsd4.2 release with a few patches(ipfw, inetd, procfs).  I
> > have noticed that using adduser the password that is put in the
> > master.passwd is DES crypted.  But if you use passwd to change it, it
> > becomes MD5 crypted.  Is there anyway to make adduser crypt to MD5 as well?
> 
> Hmm.  adduser(8) seems to use the perl crypt function directly.  
> You'd probably need a perl hacker to answer that one.

Try my enteruser script. :)

http://www.daemonnews.org/199908/enteruser.html

I wrote it to replace adduser.  It calls pw instead of editing master.passwd
itself, so it will get you your MD5 hash.

-danny

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