Re: [AOLSERVER] nspasswd/nsperm
On 2004.02.27, John Shafto [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Reading the docs, it says that one can either use the bin/nspasswd program or cut and paste an encrypted password from the system passwd file. Well, there is no bin/nspasswd program in any of the aolserver builds I have. What docs are you reading? On the web? If so, please provide the URL. I have a feeling you're looking at old (AOLserver 2.x) docs ... I find some references on the web to a ns_passwd module for encrypting passwords within the server, but nothing outside. When I copy from the system passwd file, the '$' characters in the md5 encrypted passwords there goof the nsperm module up, and it fails to load. I even tried to remove the $1$ md5 marker at the beginning, but '$' within the passwords still messed it up. nsperm doesn't speak md5 hashed passwords, only unix crypt. If you need to crypt a password, try this Perl script one-liner: $ perl -le 'print crypt(password, ..);' ..UZoIyj/Hy/c Replace password with the password you want to encrypt (up to 8 characters -- anything more gets truncated silently anyway). The output from the script (..UZoIyj/Hy/c) is the crypted password that you can cut and paste into your passwd file. I suppose it wants DES or some other encryption type there, any clues/tips on what it wants, and how to get it quickly (without writing a program)? Sorry, wrote a program. But, Perl is widespread enough that I'm figuring it's not a problem. -- Dossy -- Dossy Shiobara mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Panoptic Computer Network web: http://www.panoptic.com/ He realized the fastest way to change is to laugh at your own folly -- then you can let go and quickly move on. (p. 70) -- AOLserver - http://www.aolserver.com/ To Remove yourself from this list, simply send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the body of SIGNOFF AOLSERVER in the email message. You can leave the Subject: field of your email blank.
Re: [AOLSERVER] nspasswd/nsperm
On Fri, 27 Feb 2004 18:17:52 -0500, Dossy [EMAIL PROTECTED] tippety tapped: On 2004.02.27, John Shafto [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Reading the docs, it says that one can either use the bin/nspasswd program or cut and paste an encrypted password from the system passwd file. Well, there is no bin/nspasswd program in any of the aolserver builds I have. What docs are you reading? On the web? If so, please provide the URL. I have a feeling you're looking at old (AOLserver 2.x) docs ... The docs on www.aolserver.com are pretty old, from 1996, but I have downloaded the 3.x docs from sourceforge, and it (Admin-Security) says the same thing on my local copy, which is tagged: $Header: /cvsroot/aolserver/aolserver.com/docs/admin/security.html,v 1.1 2002/03/07 19:15:34 kriston Exp The 'Permissions and Access Control Guide' doesn't say anything about bin/nspasswd, but it does say that copying a password from /etc/passwd is the way to get it done (not on systems that use MD5 though). I find some references on the web to a ns_passwd module for encrypting passwords within the server, but nothing outside. When I copy from the system passwd file, the '$' characters in the md5 encrypted passwords there goof the nsperm module up, and it fails to load. I even tried to remove the $1$ md5 marker at the beginning, but '$' within the passwords still messed it up. nsperm doesn't speak md5 hashed passwords, only unix crypt. If you need to crypt a password, try this Perl script one-liner: $ perl -le 'print crypt(password, ..);' ..UZoIyj/Hy/c Thank you much. (That's not really a 'program' in my view ;) -- Eat drink and be merry, for tomorrow they may make it illegal. -- AOLserver - http://www.aolserver.com/ To Remove yourself from this list, simply send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the body of SIGNOFF AOLSERVER in the email message. You can leave the Subject: field of your email blank.
