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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!quagga.ru.ac.za!Braae!g89r4222 From: csgr@cs.ru.ac.za (Geoff Rehmet) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: Crypting passwords without passwd. Date: 5 Oct 1994 19:06:43 GMT Organization: Rhodes University Computing Services Lines: 23 Message-ID: <36utg4$ams@quagga.ru.ac.za> References: <36s8k8$9a6@sundog.tiac.net> <Cx7GMI.qw0@ns1.nodak.edu> Reply-To: csgr@cs.ru.ac.za NNTP-Posting-Host: braae.ru.ac.za X-Newsreader: NN version 6.5.0 #4 (NOV) In <Cx7GMI.qw0@ns1.nodak.edu> tinguely@plains.NoDak.edu (Mark Tinguely) writes: >In article <36s8k8$9a6@sundog.tiac.net> mcgovern@spoon.beta.com (Brian McGovern) writes: >> >> I would like to be able to have a >>process create a set of files, much in the format of master.passwd, to be >>distributed to a limited number of machines to be used to actually create >>the user/password database on each of these machines. >build the file in the format of the master.passwd file (use two random seed >charaters fed into crypt to build the password, for an example see: >/usr/src/usr.bin/passwd/local_password.c), send it to the remote machine >and then run /usr/sbin/pwd_mkdb on the file. Be careful about security >holes you may introduce in the remote copy/remote shell commands. I have used encrypted kerberised rcp to do this at one stage :-) Geoff. -- Geoff Rehmet, Computer Science Department, Rhodes University, South Africa FreeBSD core team: csgr@freebsd.org | ____ _ o /\ csgr@cs.ru.ac.za, geoff@neptune.ru.ac.za |___ _-\_<, / /\/\ finger rehmet@cs.ru.ac.za for PGP public key | (*)/'(*) /\/ / \ \