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dpaddy
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 Posted: Thu Aug 31, 2017 3:48 pm Post subject: [SOLVED] manually hash passwords |
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I am root, and know what plaintext password was used for user foo.
Given that information, how can I manually create the entry for user foo that I find in /etc/shadow?
At this point I appreciate the fact that various files can influence how the entry for user foo in /etc/shadow is created.
But what files do I look at, what information do I extract from those files (and how), and then how do I use the information obtained together with knowledge of the plaintext password used for user foo to obtain the entry for user foo that I find in /etc/shadow?
I have seen https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-677261-highlight-openssl+passwd.html but can't make things work.
What I find in /etc/shadow is
foo:$1$5xo...:17407:0:99999:7:::
where '...' indicates characters I have omitted, but
openssl passwd -1 -salt \$1 plaintext_password
does not produce what is in /etc/shadow. What does 
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fedeliallalinea
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| Posted: Thu Aug 31, 2017 4:12 pm Post subject: |
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From internet (never tested):
| Code: | # emerge whois
# mkpasswd -m sha-512 PASSWORD |
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dpaddy
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| Posted: Thu Aug 31, 2017 7:27 pm Post subject: |
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You may have nudged me in the right direction, but I still do not get what is stored in /etc/shadow...
Every time I execute | Code: | | mkpasswd -m sha-512 PASSWORD |
I get a different answer.
I conjecture that has to do with (random?) salt... But where is the salt for user foo stored -- and how do I extract it -- so that I can use it to generate the hash of foo's password? |
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| dpaddy wrote: | | I conjecture that has to do with (random?) salt... But where is the salt for user foo stored -- and how do I extract it -- so that I can use it to generate the hash of foo's password? |
| Code: | $ mkpasswd -m sha-512 test -s xxxxxxxx
$6$xxxxxxxx$En/.y52/cZHAwsz.3QyXMCNpW8H7uHgWY4xS3rurbDH3atFhh2nCspgYuq1wWUK9F/Qz2r3r5Z6wP4Jepydsi1
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| Posted: Thu Aug 31, 2017 7:50 pm Post subject: |
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Do you have an actual reason to do that manually?
Why not just go for:
You could also use it's batch-oriented counterpart, chpasswd if you needed a non-interactive tool. |
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