On Fri, 2007-04-27 at 12:57 +0930, Tim wrote: > Aaron Konstam: > >> The problem as I see it is to generate passwds automatically. There used > >> to be a program mkpasswd that did that but I can't find that now. > > > Well I spoke to soon. mkpasswd is part of the expect package and it > > generates passwds that will make your script much simpler. > > Does it do the same job as crypt? (Giving you the encrypted password > for the plain text one that you supply.) > No it produces a passwd that can be assigned to a user and also is output to stdout so it can be captured and sent to the user, So: mkpasswd jones Vg65og43 Jones gets the passwd displayed. The program also has arguments that control the characteristics of the passwd. mkpasswd is in the expect package. -- Aaron Konstam <akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
