On Mon, May 15, 2000 at 03:09:37PM +0530, Kedar Patankar typed:
> Does anyone here know how to get a "crypt"ed password on a
>gnu/linux box that has MD5 + shadow setup? The problem I have is related
>to CVS.
As you say, Red Hat uses MD5 hashes for passwords. So you can't simply
copy passwords from /etc/passwd and populate your CVSROOT/passwd file.
Try this perl 5 command to generate encrypted password strings for
CVSROOT/passwd:
perl -e'print crypt("password", "randomizing_string"), "\n";'
"password" is the clear text of the password you want to know the
encrypted string for.
"randomizing_string" is an arbit set of two letters used to
'randomize' the password. Something like, say "z1" :)
You can use all letters and numbers, but note that no matter how many
characters you use here, only the first two will get used.
hope this helps ...
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Suresh Ramasubramanian | sureshr at staff.juno.com
"Whatever the missing mass of the universe is, I hope it's not
cockroaches!"
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