Re: Looking for c source code to generate cvs passwords

[Antony Stace <antony@example.com>]

Thanks for all the help people.  The c call crypt() seems to be the go.  

Cheers

Tony


Shimpei Yamashita wrote:
> 
> On Tue, May 01, 2001 at 03:41:18AM -0700, Jake Morrison wrote:
> > So, if you can figure out how to generate normal crypt'ed
> > passwords, you are there. The source for /sbin/passwd, maybe?
> > Or PAM.
> 
> passwd(1) uses libcrypt, which is part of glibc. That's probably the right
> place to look. Or you can just call the C library function crypt(3) and
> let Ulrich Drepper worry about the implementation.
> 
> BTW, if you have perl installed, you can generate encrypted passwords without
> mucking about with your /etc/passwd file:
> 
> bash$ perl -e 'print crypt("password", "aa"),"\n"'
> aajfMKNH1hTm2
> 
> For better security, "aa" should be replaced with a random two-character
> string.
> 
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