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From: chris@ec.uwa.oz.au (Christoph Uloth)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: opening accounts from a non-root account ..
Keywords: password, crypt(3)
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Date: 16 Jun 91 07:50:23 GMT
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quillen@orion.fccc.edu (John Quillen) writes:

>mk_pass( pass )
>char *pass;		/* unencrypted passwd */
>{
>	extern char *crypt();
>	char salt[ 3 ];

>	salt[ 0 ] = (char) getrand( 'a', 'z' );
>	salt[ 1 ] = (char) getrand( 'A', 'Z' );
>	salt[ 2 ] = (char) NULL;

>	return( crypt( pass, salt ));
>}

the line seedrand(); is missing after char salt[ 3 ];