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[Nathan O'Sullivan]

> I'd really like to do the password script, however I'm not sure what
> password generator works best. How can i generate a password hash with
> salting using a tool like this, does anyone know?
>
>    

If I understand what you're asking, this is what we do on our website:

ENCRYPTED=`echo -n "mypass" | openssl passwd -1 -stdin`
sed -i "s#^\(root:\)[^:]*\(.*\)#\1$PASSWORD\2#" /etc/shadow

http://www.openssl.org/docs/apps/passwd.html

It has a -salt argument too
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