On Tue, Oct 26, 2004 at 09:10:14AM -0500, Mike Miller wrote: > Note that "ab" are the first two characters of the putatively > encrypted output. It seems that your perl command always includes the > first two letters of the input as the first two letters of the output: [snip] Yep, that's the salt. See perldoc -f crypt and man crypt. > I really want to figure out how to generate the correct 'passwd' > string for this command. Whatever one enters as 'passwd' is *exactly* > what is entered in the password field of /etc/shadow. Thus, it would > be really nice for generating new user accounts to have this working. Why not just use "passwd" to generate passwords for users? -- trammell at el-swifto.com 9EC7 BC6D E688 A184 9F58 FD4C 2C12 CC14 8ABA 36F5 Twin Cities Linux Users Group (TCLUG) Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota Help beta test TCLUG's potential new home: http://plone.mn-linux.org Got pictures for TCLUG? Beta test http://plone.mn-linux.org/gallery tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list