Isn't Blowfish an encryption algorithm? Passwords are based on one-way hashes such as SHA, or MD5.
Perhaps there is a mode for Blowfish for which I am not familiar, but I think that you're looking for something that doesn't exist. Trevor On Sat, Apr 4, 2009 at 01:00, Sebastian Krueger <sebykrue...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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.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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
