MD5 Support

[Andrew Pollock]

A less kludgey method of enabling MD5 password support is:

echo "set passwd/md5 true" | chroot /tmp/target debconf-communicate
DEBIAN_FRONTEND=Noninteractive chroot /tmp/target dpkg-reconfigure passwd

Is there a FAQ for FAI? This MD5 question pops up every now and then...

Andrew

On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 06:41:14PM +1100, senaque at thepla.net wrote:
> 
> The following 3-line solution (for generating the MD5 password) seems to work fairly well:
> 
> makemd5passwd:
> 
> #!/usr/bin/perl
> $pass="fai";
> $saltstring=`makepasswd --chars=8`;
> printf("%s\n", crypt("$pass","\$1\$$saltstring"));
> 
> It doesn't really need to use makepasswd program (debian makepasswd package) but it is a 
> pretty cute and useful program as it uses /dev/urandom for generating the salt (non-time based). 
> Otherwise, would need PERL to generate the random salt...Needless to say it also requires PERL 
> installed ;-)
> 
> Then use makemd5passwd with 'chpass' like so:
> 
> echo "root:`makemd5passwd`" | chpasswd -e
> 
> This will tell chpasswd program to change the password for the root user to the encrypted 
> password generated by makemd5passwd.
> 
> Alternatively, just use makemd5passwd to generate the string for rootpw= variable in 
> DEFAULT.var (maybe fai-setup can do it?) and/or feed it to cfengine to modify /etc/shadow in 
> hooks.
> 
> I still have yet to find out what packages or configuration settings will be needed for md5 to be 
> enabled.
> 
> Senaque
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