Thanks for the info! ------------------ Marvin Blackburn Systems Administrator Glen Raven "He's no failure. He's not dead yet" --William Lloyd George
> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Behalf Of Chip Turner > Sent: Tuesday, December 02, 2003 12:39 PM > To: Triangle Linux Users Group discussion list > Subject: Re: [TriLUG] automatically generating an encrypted passwd for > useradd-p for RHEL > > > Marvin Blackburn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I need a method for automatically generating a crypt(3) > password so I can > > input it into the > > usermod -p command to force a user to enter a new password > when logging in. > > > > I saw a way to use python to generate the key, but its not > automatated. > > > > Any help would be appreciated. > > I am running RHEL ES2.1 > > For md5 passwords (almost certainly what you always want for > user accounts): > openssl passwd -1 > > For true old fashioned, insecure crypt passwords that you almost never > should use unless you really really know why you need them: > openssl passwd -crypt > > Both will prompt you for the password twice, compute a random salt, > and spit out the encrypted password. Check 'man sslpasswd' for > details. > > Chip > > -- > Chip Turner [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- > TriLUG mailing list : > http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug > TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ > TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ > TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
