[ale] crypt? passwd? faulty package?

[Dow Hurst]

How would md5 based passwords figure into the use of the PERLet you've 
provided?  This obviously could be a good ALE talk sometime!
Dow


Jerry Z. Yu wrote:

>	yes. it should encrypted by crypt(). assume you are in a batch 
>situation, you can pick a pass in plaintext, then run a PERLet, as such
>
>perl -e "print crypt('PASSPLAINTEXT', 'Oz').\"\n\"";
>to get crypted version, with "Oz" as the 2-character salt.
>
>	If you are not in a batch situation, you'd do fine by issuing 
>"passwd regularUser && passwd -f regularUser" as root. 
>
>On Thu, 17 Oct 2002, Stephen Turner wrote:
>
>#am i supposed to get a passwd from crypt or something? im sorry, i must be
>#a complete idiot or have a faulty package somewhere, i just cant get a new
>#user to work! ive read man pages and tried the options, even tried
>#different orders as if that might matter, i dont wanna run the system in
>#root but im thinking ive got no choice! i can allways su into my new users
>#but i cant change thier passwords cause they dont seem to be valid, which
>#stops me from logging in as them.
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