Re: how to create MD5 passwords

[Philippe Troin <phil@fifi.org>]

Michael Wood <mwood@its.uct.ac.za> writes:

> On Thu, Jan 24, 2002 at 08:56:56AM +0100, Rainer Sigl wrote:
> > Hi everyone,
> > please can me tell somebody how to make MD5 passwords in order
> > to supply it to ftppasswd file?
> 
> You just need to call the standard crypt() function with the
> apropriate arguments.  You can use perl or python or C or
> whatever to do it.  e.g.:

Also, in this particular python example, make sure the LC_CTYPE locale
is set to 'C', or you might get weird characters in string.lowercase
and string.uppercase... ;-)

> $ python

Make that:

$ LC_CTYPE=C python

> Python 2.1.1 (#1, Nov 11 2001, 18:19:24) 
> [GCC 2.95.4 20011006 (Debian prerelease)] on linux2
> Type "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
> >>> import string
> >>> import random
> >>> import crypt
> >>> saltchars = string.uppercase + string.lowercase + string.digits + "./"  
> >>> s = []
> >>> for i in range(8):
> ...     s.append(random.choice(saltchars))
> ... 
> >>> salt = "$1$" + string.join(s, "")
> >>> passwd = "Password"
> >>> print crypt.crypt(passwd, salt)
> $1$e6TSyRDd$OcJO4kuY0I/mLED6n.tNi1

Phil.