----- Forwarded message from Justin Georgeson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -----

Since I already receive over 300 emails a day from mailing lists, and 
only have one question for siglinux, could you relay a question for me?

I am looking for a way to generate md5 password hashes, like those that 
go in /etc/shadow, from the command line. Be it a perl module or what, I 
just want to be able to issue a single command, giving it the string to 
generate the hash from, and get back the has, via stdout or dumped to a 
file. Using passwd requires an account, and I'd rather not have a dummy 
account just for getting password hashes. I tried putting the string in 
a text file (no newline at the end) and running md5sum on it, but that 
didn't give the same has as in /etc/shadow. Thanks.

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; "Free the mallocs, delete the news"

Just cc: him in your reply.

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Jeff Strunk
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What do these words mean? It's a mystery, and that's why so is mankind.
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