"Itai" == Itai Zukerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Itai> Are there other packages that similarly provide this tiny Itai> utility? Would this merit my writing a crypt package that other Itai> packages can suggest?
Yes ircd does too (upstream at least), and we also have a makepasswd.deb that does this and more in perl. (The mkpasswd name is taken by glibc, iirc.) netgod Writing non-free software is not an ethically legitimate activity, so if people who do this run into trouble, that's good! All businesses based on non-free software ought to fail, and the sooner the better. -- Richard Stallman