Hello, According to man pages of chpass(1) and vipw(1) I can create and modify users by supplying a user database entry in passwd(5) format. The only problem I face is that I do not know how to generate the password hashes for the password field.
Following section 14.4 [http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/crypt.html] from the handbook I found out that my system is using md5 to encrypt the passwords. I tried to use /sbin/md5 to generate the hash: # /sbin/md5 -s newpassword and then I passed the output to chpass. I tried to use the new password for the next login but it failed - so I believe this is wrong. Can you please show me how to generate the password hashes? Regards Rambius -- Tangra Mega Rock: http://www.radiotangra.com _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
