Pete's Linux Advent Calendar 2008

The 4th day

With Python you can encrypt a password the Linux way to get hashes that are used in the password database.

$ python -c 'from crypt import crypt; print crypt("passwort","<salt>")'

To get MD5-hashes the <salt> should look like $1$<8 chars>$. Example:

$ python -c 'from crypt import crypt; print crypt("passwort","$1$abcdefgh$")'
$1$abcdefgh$c1kHURIpOZdp.a6BTGmpI0

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