On Sun, 20 Jul 2003, Andreas Winkelmann wrote:
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.
htpasswd will do that for you. Try: htpasswd -nb dumbuser sillypass After that it's fairly simple scripting to feed that into usermod. Bjørn -- Bjørn Tore Sund Phone: (+47) 555-84894 Stupidity is like a System administrator Fax: (+47) 555-89672 fractal; universal and Math. Department Mobile: (+47) 918 68075 infinitely repetitive. University of Bergen VIP: 81724 teknisk@mi.uib.no Email: bjornts@mi.uib.no http://www.mi.uib.no/