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Article #1265Re: DES Encryption/ Encrypting more than once.
From: The DarkMage
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 01:29
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 01:29
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Can anyone send me the PRECISE algorithm used to build a UNIX password for the password file? Source code for it would be even nicer. The reason I need it is I am trying to get a script working that will add many users out of a list of names (we are a university and have to add around a hundred users all at once at the beginning of each semester). It works fine except for setting the initial password. Since passwd will only work interactively, we are forced to do "unclean" things with /dev/tty. If I could just build the encrypted string myself and insert it into the line I added to the password file, my life would be a LOT easier. Note: A straight reply may not work; we are having trouble getting our From: line correct! Sorry! -- Christopher Barkley The DarkMage cbarkley@tusol.cs.trinity.edu Reality is a State of Mind
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Newsgroups: sci.crypt Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!charon.amdahl.com!pacbell.com!iggy.GW.Vitalink.COM!cs.widener.edu!eff!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!swrinde!ringer!alex!cbarkley From: cbarkley@alex (The DarkMage) Subject: Re: DES Encryption/ Encrypting more than once. Message-ID: <1992Oct15.012933.20350@ringer.cs.utsa.edu> Sender: news@ringer.cs.utsa.edu Nntp-Posting-Host: alex.engr.trinity.edu Organization: Computer Science, Trinity University References: <wa6JsB7w165w@works.uucp> <1992Oct13.174505.24230@b11.b11.ingr.com> Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 01:29:33 GMT Lines: 20