How to encrypt password

[Cajus Pollmeier]

Am Montag, 7. April 2008 14:54:49 schrieb Walter den Besten:
> In the examples for FAI, the password for root is setup as "fai".
>
> I want to use the same way to define a password for an  other local
> user which should exist on all our servers.
> However, I can't find the way to translate "fai" to something like
> "$1$kBnWcO.E$djxB128U7dMkrltJHPf6d1"
>
> Could someone tell me how?
>
> Tanks,
>
> Walter

mkpasswd -Hmd5 fai

should do the trick.

Cajus