I know that it is possible to set user passwords programmatically using echo 'mypassword' | pw usermod myuser -h0. However, this exposes the plaintext password (e.g. in ps and when the command is included in a shell script under version control). The alternative is to generate an encrypted...
What is "password hashing method 51"?
As for the rest I stumbled across the answers:
Q. What other methods are available?
A. passwd_format string sha512 The encryption format that new or
changed passwords will use. Valid...
In doing a freebsd-update from 11.3-RELEASE to 11.4-RELEASE, two groups and a user were added.
Any idea what the groups "nofiles" and "tests" are for?
Also added was a user called "tests":
tests:*:977:977:Unprivileged user for tests:/nonexistent:/usr/sbin/nologin
Seems safe enough, but who's...
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