How to create encrypted password via command line

[Jim Canfield]

You could use a script like smbldap-passwd.  It does a fine job of 
managing openldap passwords.

http://search.cpan.org/~ghenry/Samba-LDAP-0.03/scripts/smbldap-passwd

..it assumes samba, but wouldn't take much to hack the script.

-Jim


Chris St. Pierre wrote:
> On Wed, 12 Sep 2007, Anne Moore wrote:
>
>> Yes, it's for Openldap. Unfortunately, slappasswd is not installed on 
>> any of
>> our Red Hat boxes (60 of them). It's only installed on the one 
>> OpenLdap box.
>>
>> I wanted them to be able to log into any of the boxes, run the create 
>> new
>> password commands, and then copy the encrypted output and send to the
>> administrator so he can change their passwords on Openldap without 
>> knowing
>> what their password actually is.
>>
>> Is there a way that you know of that they can copy and past in their own
>> encrypted password, bypassing having to send them to the 
>> administrator to do
>> it?
>
> Why can't you just properly configure nss_ldap so that the passwd
> command does the right thing?
>
> Failing that, write a quick Perl script that mimics passwd.  Involving
> the administrator at all seems unnecessary here.
>
> Chris St. Pierre
> Unix Systems Administrator
> Nebraska Wesleyan University
>