On Sun, 2006-06-04 at 20:32 +0200, Natanael Copa wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I'm trying to port a LEAF bering based project to gentoo-embedded. There
> is a web based UI (using haserl.sourceforge.net) to change password. The
> code to change the root password looks something like this:
>
> newrootpw=$(crypt sN "$root1")
> awk '
> BEGIN{
> FS=":";
> OFS=":";
> }
> /^root:/{
> $2="'"$newrootpw"'";
> }
> {print;}
> ' /etc/shadow > /tmp/shadow
>
> mv /tmp/shadow /etc/shadow
Despite all of the security problems with the above I think
a ~20 line custom c program for this would be ideal.
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Ned Ludd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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