Peter Kiem, On Thursday March 14, 2002 12:58, you said something about: > I have 2 places where passwords are being set on a server where the > passwords seem to be encrypted using crypt instead of MD5. > > 1. chpasswd command > Scripts that setup new users, and reset passwords, are using the following > command to set the password: > > echo "$user:$password" | chpasswd > > Now this seems to add the password in crypt form. Using the -e parameter > you can pass an encrypted password instead of a plaintext one. Assuming > this accepts an MD5 password, how can I generate in a bash script the MD5 > password?
man useradd This is the standard way (chpasswd is antiquated, IMHO). It's fully script friendly. > 2. poppassd daemon > I have a php page which calls the poppassd daemon to change passwords but > this also seems to call PAM to use crypt passwords. Any ideas here? The "standard" poppassd does not do md5. Perhaps give this one a try since it uses PAM and will do what your system is set for. http://www.ceti.com.pl/~kravietz/prog.html (scroll down, it's on there) > Failing solving the above, is there something I could run (perhaps on a > nightly basis) to process the shadow file and convert the crypt style > passwords into MD5 ones? Man the following... pwconv, pwunconv, grpconv, grpunconv These are the password conversion programs (to/from shadow/passwd) -- Brian Ashe CTO Dee-Web Software Services, LLC. [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
