On Sat, Nov 24, 2012 at 1:00 AM, jupiter wrote:
Is there any command / utility can be used to encrypt a plain password, then the encrypted password can be used for creating user account and logging to CentOS 6.2 or CentOS 6.3?
An easy method is to use openssl command (MD5):
- run openssl command and type password and its confirmation
$ openssl passwd -1 Password: Verifying - Password: $1$mJdspq9o$wZknKGNq433VsXKfK1EAq0
- create the user without specifying password $ sudo useradd -c "your user" -m your_user
- change the user (note the single quotes around the encrypted password)
$ sudo usermod -p '$1$mJdspq9o$wZknKGNq433VsXKfK1EAq0' your_user
Useful also when a user wants to change his/her password and this way can send the sysadmin the encrypted one to run the usermod command against.
Gianluca