On Thu, 10 May 2001, Vivek Chawla wrote:
> But how do I generate that encrypted password from a simple password in a
> shell script or a perl script.
>
> The crypt function mentioned is a c library function ?
See attached perl script. Call it with
./mkpasswd username passwd
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#!/usr/bin/perl
# pop_passwd username password >> password file
$name = $ARGV[0];
@salt_chars = ('a'..'z','A'..'Z','0'..'9');
$salt = $salt_chars[rand(62)] . $salt_chars[rand(62)];
$passwd = crypt ($ARGV[1], $salt);
print "$name:$passwd\n";
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