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Rob1n	2011-04-14 , 20:40
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Originally Posted by RobbieThe1st

Edit: Oh, btw, does anyone know of a good way to take a plaintext password string and validate it against the (DES encrypted? ) passwd file? I can do everything but the encrypting of the password to compare... anyone know a tool that'll do that?

You can use openssl to do this. You'll need to get the salt for the password from the passwd file (the first two characters of the encrypted password), then do:

Code:

openssl passwd -crypt -salt xx password

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