Making a UNIX password in PHP

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  15 years ago

  by Zeb

  Zeb Oliver

  Devon, UK, United Kingdom

  Joined 16 years ago
  Hi again, I need to make a 13-character UNIX password using PHP so I can write a script to auto-manage a password file for use with one of my .htaccess files.
  
  I've spent a very long time trying to find one but all I've found so far is a similar script in CGI:
  Code:

  #!/usr/bin/perl
  # crypt.cgi  by David Efflandt, last updated 9/04/99
  # Crypts a password for use with web authentication
  
  use CGI qw/:standard :netscape/;
  srand( time() ^ ($$ + ($$ << 15)));
  
  print header,start_html('Crypt a Password'),"\n","\n";
  if(param()) {
     $word = param('word');
     @range = ('0'..'9','a'..'z','A'..'Z','.','/');
     $salt = $range[rand(int($#range)+1)] . $range[rand(int($#range)+1)];
     $pass = crypt($word, $salt);
  
     print h1("Result of crypt $word"),hr,'A crypted version of ',
         em($word),' is: ',em($pass),p,
         'Example of a line in a password file for web authentication '.
         '(colon separated):',p,pre("username:$pass"),hr;
  }
  
  print b("Note: "),a({href=>'crypt.txt'},'This Script'),
     ' works best when run on the system you need passords for because some
     systems use a more secure ',em('crypt'),' that ends up with more than the
     usual 13 character crypted password.';
  
  print start_form,center(table({border=>1,cellpadding=>10},
     Tr([th([("Crypt a Plain Text Password").br.textfield('word').br.submit])
     ]))),end_form,p,end_html;

  
  Normally I'd try and translate one to another bug not knowing any CGI I'm completely unable to in this case.
  
  Does anyone know of a script written in PHP I can use on my site please?
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