henry,
i've been known to hack a perl script every now and again. i have more
experience with bash, but i'm not above using perl.... ;)
On Wed, 18 Oct 2000, Henry House wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 18, 2000 at 01:51:46PM -0700, Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
> > does anyone know of a utility that generates a shadow/md5 type encrypted
> > password from plaintext input?
>
> Not exactly what you want, but perl has a crypt() function.
looked at this - no good. it appears to only do DES encoded passwords. i
don't see md5 support.
> > alternatively, is there a 'passwd' type utility that can be used from within
> > a shell script?
>
> htpasswd -- it comes with Apache. It does do MD5.
bleah. m=md5, b=batchmode c=create new file
# htpasswd -mbc NewFile newUser password
Adding password for user newUser
doesn't work. the output is:
newUser :$apr1$mDX6A/..$FchSG1akOnVqQvVW99m4j0
compare that with what's in my shadow file:
lugod :$1$dj333333333333333333333333333Y0
rhonda :$1$gZ333333333333333333333333333l/
wellspring:$1$2D333333333333333333333333333Y/
the htpasswd string is too long and doesn't start with $1$.
pete
ps- yes, i changed the above passwords, but left the number of digits the
same.
