useradd -p

[Anon]

I almost have a useradd working in php I am using the useradd name -p encrypted string
The problem comes not from me doing the crypt command and loading into a file that I have crontabbed for the root to run, but it comes when the root tries to run the file. for example an encryped string that looks like this $1$LHdcs7qs$J/PgUHwnYldNirCHQWTir0 always cuts off everything before the slash so in actuallity it looks like /PgUHwnYldNirCHQWTir0 . how can i in my script file make it so that a like that looks like this

useradd timmy -p $1$LHdcs7qs$J/PgUHwnYldNirCHQWTir0 will actually run as such in the command line and not cut out the slashes

John

[Anon]

Is this an escaping issue? Can you escape the slash with a backslash?

Cheers.

[Anon]

here is the command I run

root@jkcool:/website# useradd timmy -p $1$LHdcs7qs$J/PgUHwnYldNirCHQWTir0

here is the output in the /etc/shadow file

timmy:/PgUHwnYldNirCHQWTir0:11910:0:99999:7:::

if I try to do a
root@jkcool:/website# useradd timmy -p $1$LHdcs7qs$J\/PgUHwnYldNirCHQWTir0

I get the same outcome in /etc/shadow:

timmy:/PgUHwnYldNirCHQWTir0:11910:0:99999:7:::

thanks in advance

john

[Anon]

Ah so the escape didn't work. I'm afraid the script is a bit beyond my abilities at the moment but I'm sure some more learned posters on here can help.

All I can say is the slash seems to making everything before it a nonentity, i.e. irrelevant, so I suppose it can't be an escape issue because escape issues affect the code AFTER the offending item, not before.

I know you can use slashes successfully in quotation marks (print etc) so it can be done.

Sorry I can't be much help!

[Anon]

root@jkcool:/website# useradd timmy -p /$1$LHdcs7qs$J/PgUHwnYldNirCHQWTir0

...maybe ¿:\?

..dont trust me though, i'm dumb ass hell