20 Jul
2003
20 Jul
'03
17:17
mailinglists wrote:
if you change the password, did you use usermod -p CRYPTEDPASSWORD or did you use a plaintext password? if plaintext, read man usermod again ;)
Thanks, that's it. Just checked google on how to crypt passwords. Well... How am I supposed to crypt the password? man crypt returns the man for crypt.h and 'whereis crypt' also points me to the same header file. Is there a tool for that?
Hmm, i didn't find anything. The crypt-command is in the systemlibraries, no shell-command. And i know no shell-command which gives the crypted-password on stdout. But look at chpasswd (man chpasswd), this tool expects a text-file, each line "user:cleartext-password" for a bulk-change of passwords. -- Andreas