RE: Kickstart User Creation

["Joshi, Vinay (MED, GEMS-IT)" <Vinay Joshi geind ge com>]

I am not very sure if this perl command give u encrypted "unix system"
passwords.(to me it appears it uses some other encryption algo)...

but C function crypt() on linux with salt same as passwd will give u
encypted passwd for the system.


-----Original Message-----
From: Gareth Bromley [mailto:gbromley intstar com]
Sent: Monday, April 28, 2003 1:45 AM
To: kickstart-list redhat com
Subject: RE: Kickstart User Creation


On Mon, 28 Apr 2003, Joshi, Vinay (MED, GEMS-IT) wrote:
> I dont know the issue with encrypted passwds. As said before can be
> picked up from shadow file.
> or if you really want..  generate it .Create an executable ( compiled
4
> line C code, using crypt(), and seed as same as supplied passwd
> generates the system passwds)
Or use the following perl code to generate it from the unencrypted
versions at Kickstart time.
perl -e 'print crypt("myHighlySecureClearTextPassword", "Xa") . "\n";'p

Note: You'd need to wrapper this with the necessary usermod etc
commands.

Of course one has to ask, why leave cleartext passwords in a text file
to
build systems?

Enjoy

Gareth



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