Comments on: Manual encrypting your shadow password

By: Christian Lete

Christian Lete — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 12:58:36 +0000

This would work too:

openssl passwd -1 -salt “tlas” “password”

By: Artem Nosulchik

Artem Nosulchik — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 14:43:54 +0000

Thanks, Johan for explanation of “salt” word in crypt command
Paul Cobbaut, you’re star! Your openssl tip is amazing!

By: Paul Cobbaut

Paul Cobbaut — Sun, 16 Sep 2007 08:12:37 +0000

You can also use openssl:
[root@RHEL4b ~]# openssl passwd stargate
ZZNX16QZVgUQg

or compile your own crypt function:
[root@RHEL4b ~]# cat MyCrypt.c
#include
#include
int main(int argc, char** argv)
{
printf(”%s\n”, crypt(argv[1], “01″));
return 0;
}
[root@RHEL4b ~]# g++ MyCrypt.c -o MyCrypt -lcrypt
[root@RHEL4b ~]# ./MyCrypt stargate
01Y.yPnlQ6R.Y