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Re: pserver question


From: Derek R. Price
Subject: Re: pserver question
Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2001 11:38:16 -0500

Peter Ajamian wrote:

> The passwords are not stored plain text in the passwd file, they have to
> be encrypted with the crypt() function.  There's a utility available
> that I just finished work on this past week which will maintain the
> passwd and readers files for you automatically (it works similar to the
> regular Unix passwd program).  You can get it from
> http://www.pajamian.dhs.org .  It's called cvspwd (though I'm thinking
> of renaming it so as not to get it confused with an older program by the
> same name).  Anyways, I think you'll find it ideal for what you want.

I was always fond of:

    perl -e 'print crypt ("passwd", "st") . "\n"'

myself.

Derek

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