I am not very sure if this perl command give u encrypted "unix system" passwords.(to me it appears it uses some other encryption algo)... but C function crypt() on linux with salt same as passwd will give u encypted passwd for the system. -----Original Message----- From: Gareth Bromley [mailto:gbromley@xxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Monday, April 28, 2003 1:45 AM To: kickstart-list@xxxxxxxxxx Subject: RE: Kickstart User Creation On Mon, 28 Apr 2003, Joshi, Vinay (MED, GEMS-IT) wrote: > I dont know the issue with encrypted passwds. As said before can be > picked up from shadow file. > or if you really want.. generate it .Create an executable ( compiled 4 > line C code, using crypt(), and seed as same as supplied passwd > generates the system passwds) Or use the following perl code to generate it from the unencrypted versions at Kickstart time. perl -e 'print crypt("myHighlySecureClearTextPassword", "Xa") . "\n";'p Note: You'd need to wrapper this with the necessary usermod etc commands. Of course one has to ask, why leave cleartext passwords in a text file to build systems? Enjoy Gareth _______________________________________________ Kickstart-list mailing list Kickstart-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/kickstart-list
