Re: perl and md5 crypt

[Dries Kimpe <Dries.Kimpe@rug.ac.be>]

On Sun, 13 Jan 2002, Thedore Knab wrote:

> How would I fix this to generate MD5 passwords ?
> 
Wouldn't it be easier (and more portable) to just use 
the passwd program to set the password?
As you script has to run as root anyway it won't ask 
for the old password, and you could just write the password that 
you want to a pipe (as stdin for passwd)
[Don't use echo 'examplepass' | passwd user or other constructs like that
because of the ps-problem...]

That way the script would still work on systems that don't use 
MD5/shadow.

Dries