Why not use  keys instead of pwds?

On Tue, Jan 5, 2016 at 6:29 PM, Rob Seastrom <[email protected]> wrote:

> 
> "Because reasons" (as the kids say these days) [1], I find myself in a
> situation where I want to extract /etc/passwd lines including the hashes,
> so as to be able to automatically install them in a regenerated VM later.
> 
> Basically, what I want to do is pwconv(1), only backwards.
> 
> Before I take the time to write this myself, has anyone else got a pointer
> to something that does this?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> -r
> 
> [1]  The long and short of it is "password authentication for imap accounts
> that are real unix users because dovecot pigeonhole really prefers to run
> that way, and LDAP would be gross overkill for my application".
> 



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Greg

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