On Fri, 7 Sep 2007, Stephen Harris wrote: > The traditional crypt strings are from a limited set 64 characters > and are always 13 characters long. GNU libc can use md5 based > encryption (the first 3 characters are $1$ and are up to 34 > characters in length) but are still from the character set > [a-zA-Z0-9./] The openssl binary can easily create a shadow-compatible hash for you: openssl passwd -1 -- Paul Heinlein <> heinlein at madboa.com <> http://www.madboa.com/