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Ok great! Thanks for the feedback. I have a few more questions about SUDO...so I will go ahead and close this question and open a new one about SUDO setup.<br />
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Thanks again!
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Ok great! Thanks for the feedback. I have a few more questions about SUDO...so I will go ahead and close this question and open a new one about SUDO setup.

Thanks again!

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We have a great script at work that we use to hash passwords, here how it works:<br />
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The program prompts for a user id/proccess id, then searches the ldap directories for a corresponding id. If one is found, the cn, unixid, and &quot;last five&quot; are extracted. The cn is echoed back to the user for verification. If this is the desired ID, the program echoes the unixid and hashed &quot;last five&quot; back to the user (with a random salt). Again, if the user verifies that this is, indeed, the correct entry, the unix process ID and the hashed password (again, with a random salt) are echoed back to the user. <br />
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I have a user that is creating a script. He wants to &quot;su - appid&quot; and does not want to pass a password within the script. So I generated a hashed password using our in-house hasher script. I provided him the hashed password for appid. But, he needs to know the source of the hash so he can figure out how to properly pass it in the script. Can someone help explain or tell me what he means? Thanks
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We have a great script at work that we use to hash passwords, here how it works:

The program prompts for a user id/proccess id, then searches the ldap directories for a corresponding id. If one is found, the cn, unixid, and "last five" are extracted. The cn is echoed back to the user for verification. If this is the desired ID, the program echoes the unixid and hashed "last five" back to the user (with a random salt). Again, if the user verifies that this is, indeed, the correct entry, the unix process ID and the hashed password (again, with a random salt) are echoed back to the user. 

I have a user that is creating a script. He wants to "su - appid" and does not want to pass a password within the script. So I generated a hashed password using our in-house hasher script. I provided him the hashed password for appid. But, he needs to know the source of the hash so he can figure out how to properly pass it in the script. Can someone help explain or tell me what he means? Thanks

Hashed password within a shell script

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Unix OS

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