On Wed, 12 Sep 2007, Anne Moore wrote:
> Does anyone know of a quick/painless way to create an encrypted {crypt}
> password via the command like on Red Hat? I need my users to do this and I
> don't want them to have to write much syntax, etc., as that will be too much
> for them. I was hoping there was some built-in (or other) method that allows
> creating an encrypted password, depending on what the user types in for the
> password.
How about just doing:
openssl passwd -crypt
then you can automate it by doing:
echo test | openssl passwd -crypt -stdin
and you can even provide the salt, just to verify a password:
echo test | openssl passwd -crypt -stdin -salt ab
Other possibilities are MD5 and Apache MD5 encryption.
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