Script to encrypt/decrypt User-Password

[Bill Campbell]

On Mon, Jul 18, 2005, Tore Anderson wrote:
>
>  Hi.  Does anyone have a script that implements the encrypting/
> decrypting algorithm of User-Password that they'd like to share?  I
> want to be able to input the Authenticator, shared secret, a
> password, and then get the encrypted password in return (or vice
> verca).

You won't get a decrypted password without doing a dictionary
check with cracklib or similar software as *nix passwords are
done with a one-way encryption.

Clear text passwords may be tested against the encrypted
passwords using the ``crypt(3)'' C routine (python and perl have
a scriptable interface to this).  In python this check might be:

	from crypt import crypt
	cryptpw == crypt(plaintext, cryptpw)

Bill
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