is there any reason why this wouldn't work then
#! /usr/bin/perl
use Digest::MD5 qw(md5 md5_hex md5_base64);
my $password = 'hello';
my $encrpass = md5_hex($password);
system "adduser -p $encrpass bob";
I know its dodgy running system commands like that, but i stress i just knocked this up real quick to see if it would work.
When i try to log in as bob with the pass of hello, it won't let me in | [reply]
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The friendly crypt() function that you're likely to find in any *nix operating system, applies a (hopefully) cryptographically strong hashing function to the supplied password and salt. The general idea behind this, is converting the cleartext password you gave it into a hash (some people uses the term signature).
With that hash, it is computationaly infeasible to find a strong-enough password. What this means in lay man terms, is that it is very hard to learn the original (cleartext) password out of the hash and salt that lives in /etc/passwd.
I know of two common implementations of the crypt() functions: The DES based and the MD5 based. Newer systems tend to use the MD5 based crypt(), for a number of reasons.
Note that the MD5-based crypt() is not the same as obtaining the hash of your password with Digest::MD5 or similar. The algorythm used internally by the MD5-based crypt() uses a number of transformations in which the MD5 algorythm is used, but is very different.
Crypt::PasswdMD5 implements this algorythm in Perl, allowing you to reproduce the result of said crypt() functions in non-*nix systems or systems without a compatible crypt() implementation.
Regards.
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This sets the password to the hex-encoded MD5 digest of the password (which eventually gets encoded using some variant of crypt before making it into your /etc/passwd). So it would "work", except that instead of typing the actual password at the prompt, you'd need to type in the MD5 hash. I doubt this is what you want.
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not realy, so how would i get round this?
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