How to encrypt password
Henning Glawe
glaweh at physik.fu-berlin.de
Mon Apr 7 15:09:34 CEST 2008
On Mon, Apr 07, 2008 at 02:54:49PM +0200, Walter den Besten wrote:
> 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?
this is an MD5 hash; there are several ways to generate it:
1) change the password of a user to the password and copy the hash from
/etc/shadow
2) in a script, you can e.g. use the grub shell:
[...]
MD5=`/usr/sbin/grub --batch --device-map=/dev/null <<EOF \
| grep "^Encrypted: " | sed 's/^Encrypted: //'
md5crypt
$PASSWD
quit
EOF
`
[...]
--
c u
henning
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