Jeremy C. Reed <reed <at> reedmedia.net> writes:


> Does anyone know if we have a tool that allows you to choose the cipher 
> type (like md5, blowfish, des) and other attributes (like rounds or salt) 
> to create hashes (from stdin or command line)? Maybe openssl(1) could be 
> used to create hashes that are compatible with crypt(3)?

apg can produce old style crypt passwords with -y, eg:
$> apg -y -n1 
MuWinbawt SdUc2.6R0nAOY
$> 

but that would require one to use "localcipher = old".


OpenSSL has "passwd" to produce several password hashes, eg:

#> useradd -p `openssl passwd MyPassword`  username

to produce an "old" password or

#> useradd -p `openssl -1 passwd MyPassword`  username

to produce "md5" style passwords. 

SHA1 and Blowfish are lacking, but I guess it should be no big problem to add 
those algorithms.