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Operating Systems Linux Red Hat Useradd issue Post 302410177 by maverick_here on Monday 5th of April 2010 07:12:11 AM
Old 04-05-2010
Yes the

Code:
password=`echo "PASSWORDSTRING"|md5sum`

is not the user password,but iam trying to generate a md5sum encrypt password string which i could use in the following command

Code:
useradd -p $password $username

The "PASSWORDSTRING" is my desired password. which iam piping to md5sum to generate a encyprted password to feed in the command useradd using the -p switch.

I may be wrong.Ygemici,could you please elobarate on
Code:
char *crypt(const char *key, const char *salt); //syscall

any refrence/guidance would be highly aprreciated.

Thankds and Regards,
Syed
Last edited by pludi; 04-05-2010 at 08:20 AM.. Reason: code tags, please...
 

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