in reply to How to use MD5?

Here's an older node of mine that might help you get started md5-crypting passwds.

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Re: Re: How to use MD5?
by Anonymous Monk on Sep 18, 2002 at 14:29 UTC
    Mdillon: the exact purpose of this is to create a user using adduser bob -p $encrypass as the command, run from a perl script. i'm stuck :-(
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      First, you need to generate an appropriate salt. The code provided by tadman in this node should work.

      Then, either install Crypt::PasswdMD5 and use: 

      use Crypt::PasswdMD5;

my $crypted = unix_md5_crypt $passwd, $salt;

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      Or, since you're apparently using RedHat (since adduser is a RedHat-specific command AFAIK) and your libc's crypt should do MD5-crypt automatically given a proper MD5 salt, use: my $crypted = crypt $passwd, $salt; To make sure this works, print the value of $crypt; it should be something like $1$b1yv9grF$mpwoS2r11VtENFrAmF2WW/ (instead of the shorter string returned by traditional DES-crypt). Once you've confirmed that you have what looks like an MD5-crypted password, use the value of $crypted in your command line: 
      system("adduser", "bob", "-p", $crypted) == 0
    or die "Error adding user 'bob': $!$/";

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      The secret to getting crypt to work correctly is in providing a salt starting with '$1$' and having 8 characters (instead of the normal 2 used for DES-crypt). There are similar conventions for using other crypt variants (e.g. '$2$' for SHA-crypt).
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      my  man adduser says:

       -p passwd
    The  encrypted  password,  as returned by crypt(3).
    The default is to disable the account.

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      That is, unless you use a modified adduser, you have to provide a crupt'ed password (not md5).

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