Blowfish is the standard for openSUSE since 9.3. And it's the standard since SLES 9 as well. It's way stronger than md5.
On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 7:41 PM, Robin Lee Powell < rlpow...@digitalkingdom.org> wrote: > > On Fri, Apr 03, 2009 at 03:49:18PM +1300, Sebastian Krueger wrote: > > now the problem is, that the foofoo password is expected to be in > > encrypted form. Is there anyway to get "foofoo" password in > > encrypted form? > > > > Cleartext: foofoo > > Cypertext: ??? > > > > I've found references to mkpasswd, but this does not exist in > > SLES, and doesn't generate Blowfish passwords anyway. I've tried a > > variety of Perl one-liners, but can't seem to get the right > > combination. > > Blowfish? I've never heard of anyone using that for passwords. > Standard Linux IME is md5. > > mkpasswd *is* in fact the standard tool for this purpose, and it can > produce a variety of formats: > > $ mkpasswd -m help > Available methods: > des standard 56 bit DES-based crypt(3) > md5 MD5 > sha-256 SHA-256 > sha-512 SHA-512 > > -Robin > > -- > They say: "The first AIs will be built by the military as weapons." > And I'm thinking: "Does it even occur to you to try for something > other than the default outcome?" -- http://shorl.com/tydruhedufogre > http://www.digitalkingdom.org/~rlpowell/<http://www.digitalkingdom.org/%7Erlpowell/>*** > http://www.lojban.org/ > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
