On Wed, Oct 18, 2000 at 11:04:32PM -0400, Chris Gray wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 18, 2000 at 04:48:16PM -0700, Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
> > sorry, but i'm trying to write some tools for beowulf administration.
> >
> > consider the program:
> > printf("Usage: encrypt salt password\n");
> > strncpy(password, crypt(argv[1], salt), 49);
>
> argv[1] is the salt, not the password. Try fixing this and see what
> happens.
Replying to myself, the crypt(3) man page also states
The returned value points to the encrypted password, a
series of 13 printable ASCII characters (the first two
characters represent the salt itself)
So it makes sense that the salt should start out the password.
Cheers,
Chris
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