On Fri, Sep 07, 2007 at 11:17:18AM -0700, semi linux wrote: > it and trying to kickstart from it - no change. (I thought there was > only one right answer, but if I reset my password and type the same > thing, the crypted string changes slightly everytime.)
Traditionally, a password can be encrypted using crypt() in 4096 different ways; the first two characters indicate which one of the 4096 versions was used. In modern unix systems stronger methods than the old DES crypt() version can be used. > The only thin I can think of is that maybe my crypted password > contains an escape sequence that might not be properly handled in > anaconda? The traditional crypt strings are from a limited set 64 characters and are always 13 characters long. GNU libc can use md5 based encryption (the first 3 characters are $1$ and are up to 34 characters in length) but are still from the character set [a-zA-Z0-9./] -- rgds Stephen _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
