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On 14-May-2002/10:02 -0700, Isaac Liu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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>Are thre routines that
>generates passwords so I can programmatically
>put them in /etc/shadow?

The expect package includes mkpasswd, which can just generate a password
or generate and assign the password to a user (updates /etc/shadow). It
has options for the number and kind of characters to use when generating a
password.

>BTW, what is the password encryption algorithm? MD5? DES?

MD5


Tony
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