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If the cleartext password is known (e.g. when generating temporary student accounts), the printable hash to go in /etc/shadow can be generated like this:
USERSHADOW=$(perl -e "use Crypt::PasswdMD5; print unix_md5_crypt(${USERPASSWD}, $(( ${RANDOM} % 4096)) );")
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Of course, ${RANDOM} works because we are using a |
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