md5 passwords

Carey Evans c.evans at clear.net.nz
Sat Mar 17 01:57:38 EST 2001


Timothy Grant <tjg at exceptionalminds.com> writes:

> Can anyone explain to me how to use the md5 module to generate
> passwords for the shadow password file?
> 
> I would like to be able to be able to os.system('useradd -p
> md5/crypt username')

Have a look at Michal Wallace's `md5crypt.py' module, which should do
this for you:

    http://www.sabren.net/code/python/crypt/

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