The salt is random, or if you are trying to match an existing has, it is the first two characters after the Magic String, which is usually $1$.
Spencer On Thursday 31 October 2002 02:17 am, Daniel Brown wrote: > might crypt(3) be of use here? i dont know where one might get the > char *salt value from... > > danb > > (not cc-ed intentionally) > > On Thu, Oct 31, 2002 at 01:03:45AM -0600, Spencer Ogden wrote: > > The perl module Crypt::PasswdMD5 seems to be what you want. It seems > > like it might need a little tweaking. > > > > Spencer > > > > On Thursday 31 October 2002 12:22 am, Jeff Strunk wrote: > > > ----- 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. > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Siglinux mailing list > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > http://www.utacm.org/mailman/listinfo/siglinux _______________________________________________ Siglinux mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.utacm.org/mailman/listinfo/siglinux
