Re: [LUG] Adding new email users

[Kai Hendry <hendry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Jul 14, 2004 at 05:29:30PM +0100, Simon Waters wrote:
> | What about adduser --shell /bin/false ?
> That sets the password how Kai?

Hmmmm

I assumed libpam-pwgen would do it, but it just generates some to type
in. Painful. That's inappropriate for generating in this case?

> useradd takes the encrypted password these days - easy enough to
> generate, there is a perl script which does it using suitably random
> salts. Encrypted Unix password are dead easy, but you have to know what
> to expect, especially now when they may well be MD5 or old style, which
> is all a bewildering confusion for those getting started.

URL? So what does this do? Dumps auto-generated passwords for a teacher
to hand out?

When I have some time I'll try one time passwords(OTP) for accessing my
machine via SSH.  Can't trust internet cafe's for keyloggers.

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