Date: Mon, 6 Oct 2008 09:18:00 +0300 From: "Ivan \"Rambius\" Ivanov" <rambiusparkisanius@gmail.com> To: "Adam Zaleski" <talk@holon.urwis.cc> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to generate password hashes for vipw and chpass Message-ID: <89ce7f740810052318u6bf50560h8c79549f25ece641@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <48E9A4D1.6020008@holon.urwis.cc> References: <89ce7f740810052214k4419d939s8bb8ebce5e703626@mail.gmail.com> <48E9A4D1.6020008@holon.urwis.cc>
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Hello Adam, On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 8:40 AM, Adam Zaleski <talk@holon.urwis.cc> wrote: > Ivan "Rambius" Ivanov pisze: > >> # /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? > > You can add new account with one command like this: > > echo user_password |pw user add new_user -h0 > > Also if you only want to generate valid password hash > you can use 'openssl passwd -1 new_password' Thank you, this is the command I was looking for. Regards Ivan -- Tangra Mega Rock: http://www.radiotangra.com
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