On Tue, 2003-12-02 at 08:35, Rigler, Steve wrote:
> Are you looking for a way to force the user to enter a password at
> next login or to automatically set the password to something?
>
> If you're just looking for a way to create the hash, you can use
> a perl script like below. Call it "gen_crypt.pl" and use it with
> usermod like "usermod -p $( gen_crypt.pl somepass ) username":
>
> #!/usr/bin/perl
>
> my $pass = shift;
> my @salts = ( 'a' .. 'z', 'A' .. 'Z', 0 .. 9, '.', '/' );
>
> print
> crypt( $pass, join( "", map { $salts[ rand( scalar(@salts) ) ] } ( 1, 2 ) ) );
OpenSSL's passwd feature also works well as a one-liner. :)
usermod -p `openssl passwd -1 <password>` <username>
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DixonGroup Consulting
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