Hi Monks,

I am trying to add a user using 'useradd $username -p $password'. At first it didn't work, because i was unaware that -p needed an encrypted password. So i went off and found out how to encrypt a password for the command, and came back with this: 

my @chars = ('a'..'z', 'A'..'Z', 0..9);
my $password = do {{
  local $_ = join "" => map {$chars [rand @chars]} 1..8;
  redo unless /[a-z]/ && /[A-Z]/ && /\d/;
  $_;
}};
my $salt = join '', 
   ('.', '/', 0..9, 
   'A'..'Z', 'a'..'z')[rand 64, rand 64];
my $encrypted_pass = crypt($password, $salt);

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This seemed to work ok, but i was alerted by a freind that this was not a very securly encrypted password. He told me to look at /etc/shadow and see the difference between an account created via the system, and one using my script. 

system:$1$52060970$luRfo2g2xith2rfv8fWC31:12176:0:99999:7:::
myscript:$1$52075700$:12176::::::

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How can i make my passwords like the ones created by the system?

In reply to Shadow Passwords by Anonymous Monk

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