On Tue, 28 May 2002, Jamie Heckford wrote: > Im trying to have the passwords on our FreeBSD boxen created by a perl > script. > > Currently... the username/pass pairs are stored in a MySQL database. Easy > enough to get them, but > does anyone know a perl method of creating them in /etc/passwd? I know > getpwent grabs values - im looking for a putpwent if > there is such a thing and in the encrypted password form :)
Have a look at pw(8), it has an option "-h" which might by useful in your case. regards, le -- Lukas Ertl eMail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] UNIX-Systemadministrator Tel.: (+43 1) 4277-14073 Zentraler Informatikdienst (ZID) Fax.: (+43 1) 4277-9140 der Universit�t Wien http://mailbox.univie.ac.at/~le/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
