[rescue] OT: Password Hashing (was: RS/6000s)

[Paul Sladen]

On Tue, 13 Nov 2001, Steve Sandau wrote:

> Any kind soul with an AIX box have or be willing to create me a hash for
> a known password? Please?

Everything uses the standard crypt(3) function--which is DES.  Here's one
for `xyzzy':

  $ htpasswd -nb secret xyzzy
  secret:1GKxPYH8skmuQ

Happy emacsing--BTW, have you managed to get the machine to boot yet, if so,
how did you do it?

	-Paul