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From: j@ida.interface-business.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc
Subject: Re: WebInterface to add/remove/modify users
Date: 20 Jun 1996 08:29:41 GMT
Organization: interface business GmbH, Dresden
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spluess@creative.net (Serge Pluess) wrote:

> Solaris 2,x but I'm not sure on BSDI on how I would be able to
> generate the encrypted password from a script to be added to the
> master.passwd file.

/usr/libexec/makekey.  This program is a bit picky about what it
allows as valid input.

You might perhaps want to do this with a Perl script instead; Perl
has a builtin crypt function which you can use.

-- 
J"org Wunsch					       Unix support engineer
joerg_wunsch@interface-business.de       http://www.interface-business.de/~j