> John Ferlito <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Anyone know of anything similar to makepasswd which will encrypt a
> > password and give you the MD5 encrypted result. ie something I can pass
> > to usermod -p. Even a snippet of perl code or a pointer to the algorithm
> > so I can write some perl code would do.
this is snipped from some of my code so some of the vars are meaningless but
you get the idea
#!/usr/bin/perl
use Crypt::PasswdMD5;
use String::Random qw(random_string);
$salt = random_string("ssssssss");
$md5_pass = unix_md5_crypt($newpassword,$salt);
later
marty
"I can't buy what I want because it's free. Can't be what they want
because I'm me." - Corduroy, Pearl Jam
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