On Fri, 2003-07-25 at 20:36, Ethan Bonick wrote:
I would like to request a newusers like program that will take plain
text
passwords and encrypt them so the program could be useful. Newusers
leavesthe password in plaintext which is not secure at all.
Hmm, here newusers crypt()s the password, but doesn't make an MD5 hash
out of it.
I have created a script that does this same kind of function but it
only works on RedHat because other distro's dont compile with the same
options. Check it out on
www.networkinggeeks.com/scripts.html If
anyone knows how to rewrite newusers to crypt the password it would be
a wonderful addition. In my Linux classes we went over the newusers
command but deemd it useless because it wont crypt the passwords. Does
anyone else feel this would be a very useful utility?
I usually use a shell script that takes a similar file like newusers
which eventually runs groupadd, then useradd and finally runs passwd
like this to set the password:
[...]
(echo $newpasswd; echo $newpasswd) | passwd $newuser
[...]
This works here (also a Red Hat system) but should work anywhere where
useradd/groupadd exist/work.
Nils
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