Re: Creating encrypted passwords without yast ui

Thomas,


could please tell us which encryption method is used by default  from yast ui?
sha-512, bfy?


Thanks,
Jochen


>>> Robert Klein <[email protected]> 08/29/13 11:33 AM >>>
On 08/29/2013 11:25 AM, Jochen Schaefer wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> 
> I would like to achive the creation of the encrypted root password used within autoyast via 
> cmdline. Could sombody tell me how to do that with python or perl or any os cmd-line tool?
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> Jochen
> 
> 

Hi Jochen,

would `mkpasswd' suffice?

There are some alternative suggestions on

http://serverfault.com/questions/330069/how-to-create-an-sha-512-hashed-password-for-shadow

Best regards
Robert

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