creating password for shadow file

From: LeVA (leva_at_az.isten.hu)
Date: 11/30/03

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    Hello!

    I need to add users to a passwd/shadow file, but these files does not
    reside in /etc dir. Thus I can not use the adduser or useradd tool to
    add the user, because they will add it to the /etc/passwd|shadow file. I
    managed to create a passwd file, and wrote the user name and uid, and
    homedir etc... by hand. After that I used htpasswd program to create a
    passwd for the user. This passwd/shadow files are used by an ftp server.
    And the shadow file must be encrytped with md5. So I typed:

    htpasswd -m shadow.ftp user

    The problem is that this program doesn't create a password like the
    adduser program used to create. When I try to login with 'user' via ftp,
    it says username and/or password was not accepted, so the passwd
    generation didn't work.

    My question: Is it possible to create passwords for shadow file with a
    command line tool? Is this htpasswd the right tool for this? Or if this
    is not possible, then how can I specify another destination
    shadow/passwd file for the adduser/useradd program.

    Thanks! 

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LeVA
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