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Thank you, Perderabo, for specifying the possible behaviours in coding an only 1 character "salt" in crypt() call.

Bye
nisant

I've tried using this code:

char k[2];
char str[255];

scanf("%s",k);
scanf("%s",str);
printf("%s\n",crypt(str,k));

Entering only 1 character to k variable I verify that encrypted string...

It works !!! Many thanks.

A question, I've tried to run with a 1 character encryption key (e.g."X") and the output string was like "X.xxxxxxxxxxx".

To eliminate the . between key and crypted...

Hi all,

I'd like to use the encryption method used to generate the /etc/shadow passwords.

The goal is to write a script that get a plain-text password as argument and returns an encrycped one....

The first solution requires a big amount of work but would solve a set of cases larger than the simple password change task.

The second is more specific for my problem but is non suitable for all...

Hi,

I'm trying to create a shell to change some user password with random string.

I've tried to use stdin redirection to supply the new password by a response file:

passwd theuser <...