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Date:      Tue, 10 Jul 2001 01:57:28 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Walter Campbell <wcampbel@botbay.net>
To:        <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Generating encrypted passwords 
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.32.0107100153400.542-100000@botbay.net>
In-Reply-To: <200107100351.NAA22722@lightning.itga.com.au>

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On Tue, 10 Jul 2001, Gregory Bond wrote:

> > /usr/libexec/makekey
>
> Thanks.  That'll do, even tho it's pretty clumsy and DES only (no MD5
> passwords) and doesn't pick a salt for you.
>
> I might look at beefing it up a bit.  (OK, a lot!)

Most IRC servers include an mkpasswd utility.  Hybrid 7 comes with one
that can generate both DES and MD5, and allows you to specify a salt,
or have it generate a random one.  I put a copy of it up at
http://ircd.botbay.net/pub/Other_Tools/mkpasswd.c (or
ftp://ircd.botbay.net/pub/Other_Tools/mkpasswd.c )


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