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 ) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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