On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 12:21 PM, Peter Meier <peter.me...@immerda.ch> wrote: >>> Can someone walk me through the steps of sending out a password to all >>> my computers for user "student." >> >> I do this a lot: >> >> yes 'PASSWORD' | passwd username >> >> Then you can extract the password from /etc/shadow >> >> also see here: >> >> http://serverfault.com/questions/87874/how-should-someone-create-an-encrypted-password-for-etc-shadow > > > No need to go over /etc/shadow or use mkpasswd (which is not available > that easy on all distros). How about > > # salt=`pwgen 8 1`; pass=`pwgen -s 12 1`;ruby -e "puts \ > ARGV[0].crypt('\$6\$' << ARGV[1] << '\$')" $pass $salt; echo $pass > $6$eemaihic$3gwFGQxMWE8n/KMZlNe3O9dVoQC5zCXrtabhpCLeDp54eYTGK8WAHovxYZLaQf8YF93Hwfh466CQ966Xoh6O81 > FmstT8KObWVu > crypt might yield a different output depending on the c crypt lib, so in theory it may not work across all os's.
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