$id$salt$encrypted

ID  | Method
          ---------------------------------------------------------
          1   | MD5
          2a  | Blowfish (not in mainline glibc; added in some
              | Linux distributions)
          5   | SHA-256 (since glibc 2.7)
          6   | SHA-512 (since glibc 2.7)

mkpasswd -5 <the_salt> <the_password>

#!/bin/bash
#
# login.sh $USERNAME $PASSWORD

#this script doesn't work if it is run as root, since then we don't have to specify a pw for 'su'
if [ $(id -u) -eq 0 ]; then
        echo "This script can't be run as root." 1>&2
        exit 1
fi

if [ ! $# -eq 2 ]; then
        echo "Wrong Number of Arguments (expected 2, got $#)" 1>&2
        exit 1
fi

USERNAME=$1
PASSWORD=$2

#since we use expect inside a bash-script, we have to escape tcl-$.
expect << EOF
spawn su $USERNAME -c "exit"
expect "Password:"
send "$PASSWORDr"
#expect eof

set wait_result  [wait]

# check if it is an OS error or a return code from our command
#   index 2 should be -1 for OS erro, 0 for command return code
if {[lindex $wait_result 2] == 0} {
        exit [lindex $wait_result 3]
}
else {
        exit 1
}
EOF

#! /bin/bash
#  (GPL3+) Alberto Salvia Novella (es20490446e)


passwordHash () {
    password=${1}
    salt=${2}
    encryption=${3}

    hashes=$(echo ${password} | openssl passwd -${encryption} -salt ${salt} -stdin)
    echo $(substring ${hashes} "$" "3")
}


passwordIsValid () {
    user=${1}
    password=${2}

    encryption=$(secret "encryption" ${user})
    salt=$(secret "salt" ${user})
    salted=$(secret "salted" ${user})
    hash=$(passwordHash ${password} ${salt} ${encryption})

    [ ${salted} = ${hash} ] && echo "true" || echo "false"
}


secret () {
    secret=${1}
    user=${2}
    shadow=$(shadow ${user})

    if [ ${secret} = "encryption" ]; then
        position=1
    elif [ ${secret} = "salt" ]; then
        position=2
    elif [ ${secret} = "salted" ]; then
        position=3
    fi

    echo $(substring ${shadow} "$" ${position})
}


shadow () {
    user=${1}
    shadow=$(cat /etc/shadow | grep ${user})
    shadow=$(substring ${shadow} ":" "1")
    echo ${shadow}
}


substring () {
    string=${1}
    separator=${2}
    position=${3}

    substring=${string//"${separator}"/$'2'}
    IFS=$'2' read -a substring <<< "${substring}"
    echo ${substring[${position}]}
}


passwordIsValid ${@}