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How to encrypt a password in Linux

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Name: kenji
Date: March 9, 2003 at 17:02:48 Pacific
OS: Mandrake Linux 9.0
CPU/Ram: 256 sdram
Comment:

i want to develop a script using bourne shell to create an account management system in linux,i want to know how to encrypt a password. let say
echo -n "Plese Enter Password : "
read password

after reading the value from user, i want to encrypt it then write to /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow file....anyone knows how to do this in Linux??
please advise thanks for your help



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Name: 3Dave
Date: March 11, 2003 at 07:26:41 Pacific
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Why not use "passwd", call it from within the script and pass it the variable from the input with the --stdin switch?


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