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From: [e-mail] (Pat Myrto)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin
Subject: Re: Program to generate encrypted version of password?
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>
Date: 1 Jan 93 01:33:28 GMT
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In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (Jesse W. Asher) writes:
>At one time I played with a program that would take a password (and
>maybe the salt) and encrypt the password just like to would go into the
>passwd file.  Does anyone know the name of the program?  I need to
>generate an encrypted version of the password without it being in the
>passwd file itself.  Thanks.

I think the program you have in mind is /usr/lib/makekey.  It takes a
10 char string (8 chars of plaintext password, space filled, to 8 chars
if the password is less than 8 chars, plus a 2 character salt tacked on
as chars 9 and 10) on stdin, and spits out the encrypted form on stdout.
To match a word in the passwd file, for example, one would enter the
plaintext word, the 2 chars of salt (the first 2 chars of the data in
the password field of the passwd file), and then compare the output with
what is in the password file.  If the two match, you have entered the
correct password.

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