On Wed, 2003-06-11 at 19:19, Mark Williamson wrote:
> Using the "usermod -p <passwd>" it will pass the already hashed or md5
> encrypted straight to the new /etc/shadow file, that's not the problem
> with the script.. it's the accuracy of the line
> PASSWD=`grep ${USERNAME}: /etc/shadow | cut -d: -f2`
> (I might have to use a awk line or something here)
> and the other problem is that bash scripts often interpret the "$"
> symbols from the already md5 passwords out of the old /etc/shadow file,
> not sure if that is the case here, as I haven't totally tested the
> script.
You're right...mea culpa mea culpa...
Never used that particular option before.
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