Subject: Re: Help me understand why there is no UNIX utility to encrypt a password?
To: John Maier <jmaier@midamerica.net>
From: Bill Squier <groo@old-ones.com>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 12/07/2000 12:01:44
On Wed, Dec 06, 2000 at 07:36:58PM -0600, John Maier wrote:
> Okay, help me understand...
>
> chpass, useradd, vipw all give you access to encrypted passwords or at least
> you can add a password that is already encrypted.
>
> So how is one suppose to encrypt the password?
% man 8 makekey
% /usr/libexec/makekey
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