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Date:      Sun, 22 Dec 2013 05:47:08 +0000
From:      "Teske, Devin" <Devin.Teske@fisglobal.com>
To:        "M. V." <bored_to_death85@yahoo.com>
Cc:        Devin Teske <dteske@freebsd.org>, "Teske, Devin" <Devin.Teske@fisglobal.com>, FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: setting encrypted password for a user
Message-ID:  <79C9317F-84B9-4F8F-8D5F-4DE0B63ED056@fisglobal.com>
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On Dec 21, 2013, at 9:36 PM, M. V. wrote:

> hello,
>=20
> I'm using FreeBSD-8.2. I have a program which sends "MD5=20
> of the new password" of a user to me, and I want to reset user's password=
 with it. I realized I can use "chpass" to set encrypted=20
> password for a user, but it needs salt and I couldn't make it work=20
> without it. so I wanted to know:
> - can I set user's password in FreeBSD if I have only MD5 of the password=
? how?
>=20

echo 'MD5-HASH' | pw usermod username -H 0
--=20
Devin

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