Hello! I have i problem i was hoping you could help me with, I have to write a script that will ask the user for a username and password, and validate it through /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow. I've looked all over the place for an answer to this and i just cant find it, ive tried generating a new password with the salt i get from the shadow file, and the command openssl passwd -salt salt [password to verify] but I just cannot get it to match the correct encryption of the password. also, for that same proyect i have to enable creation of users without the useradd command, and remove them, i also have to enable password modification, without the passwd command, said user must have an encrypted password and supported by /etc/shadow... i was hoping some1 could help me out with where to start on that before i just plunge headfirst into editing the shadow file (shudders) :S i only just booted into linux for the first time 2 weeks ago, so i could really use any help you can give me... :icon_cheesygrin:
