[TriLUG] automatically generating an encrypted passwd for useradd-p for RHEL

[Marvin Blackburn]

Thanks for the info!

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Marvin Blackburn
Systems Administrator
Glen Raven
"He's no failure.  He's not dead yet" --William Lloyd George

> -----Original Message-----
> From: trilug-bounces at trilug.org [mailto:trilug-bounces at trilug.org]On
> Behalf Of Chip Turner
> Sent: Tuesday, December 02, 2003 12:39 PM
> To: Triangle Linux Users Group discussion list
> Subject: Re: [TriLUG] automatically generating an encrypted passwd for
> useradd-p for RHEL
> 
> 
> Marvin Blackburn <mblackburn at glenraven.com> writes:
> 
> > I need a method for automatically generating a crypt(3) 
> password so I can
> > input it into the
> > usermod -p command to force a user to enter a new password 
> when logging in.
> > 
> > I saw a way to use python to generate the key, but its not 
> automatated.
> > 
> > Any help would be appreciated.
> > I am running RHEL ES2.1
> 
> For md5 passwords (almost certainly what you always want for 
> user accounts):
> openssl passwd -1
> 
> For true old fashioned, insecure crypt passwords that you almost never
> should use unless you really really know why you need them:
> openssl passwd -crypt
> 
> Both will prompt you for the password twice, compute a random salt,
> and spit out the encrypted password.  Check 'man sslpasswd' for
> details.
> 
> Chip
> 
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