adduser no encrypt

andy7t · 07-26-2005, 07:03 AM

Hi,

I'm runnig this code:

adduser -d /home/user -p apassword ausername

However "apassword" is never encrypted?????
When view /etc/shadow it's in there as 'apassword', not encrypted.
I'm also using pureftpd, and when i do the command to create the pureftpd user database, the password is still no encrypted, meaing i can't login.
I also get invalid password when trying to su to that user when i enter the password.

The root password is encrypted, and so is the user i created when i setup the system.

mmmm · 07-26-2005, 07:23 AM

hmmmmmmmmm.... Try to change password after creating user :

# adduser -d /home/user -p "anything" ausername
# passwd ausername
Enter password :

And here type apassword

andy7t · 07-26-2005, 07:31 AM

Anyway i can do this in a perl script?
I need to be able to do it all automatically.

andy7t · 07-26-2005, 08:01 AM

OK, i've discovered that it doesn't do it on my other machine either, so i guess adduser doesn't make encrypted passwords.

How do I use perl to get an encrypted password that will work with linux, so i can access via FTP and SU.

jtshaw · 07-26-2005, 09:50 AM

Looking at the man page for adduser you will see the following statement:

-p passwd
The encrypted password, as returned by crypt(3). The default is to disable the account.

So, I take it adduser is expecting the password hash and not the actual password.

andy7t · 07-26-2005, 10:02 AM

Yeah, found that now :-)

Still leaves the question, how can i do this in perl?

Thanks,
Andrew

jtshaw · 07-26-2005, 10:06 AM

The Digest::MD5 module has functions that can compute the digest for you so you can pass it into adduser... I had intended on mentioning that in the last post... opps.