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Re: howto ecrypt passwords for adduser -batch



On Tue, 4 Jun 2002, Oliver Bode wrote:
>
> How do I encrypt the password with blowfish using 6 rounds, and do I need a
> key?
>

apropos crypt
(parse through some output)
man encrypt


/usr/bin/encrypt should do what you want.  depending on the exact contents
of /etc/login.conf, you may not need to pass any args.


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