On Wed, 30 May 2001, Robert Magier wrote:
Values of encrypted passwords are diffrent each time I use makepasswd.
So, how the login program check my password?
I tested if I can login to the system for each of this values ( I write it
down to the /etc/shadow ) and I could.
The crypt()
On Fri, 1 Jun 2001, Izak Burger wrote:
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The salt is some random value that is used in the encryption
algorithm, two-characters chosen from the set [a-zA-Z0-9./]. These
two characters are then stored as the first two characters of the crypted
password. That way, when you log in, the
I wonder how password encryption works
At first I thought that thist looks smth like this
Encrypted passwords are kept in /etc/shadow
When I want to log in . My password is being crypted and then compared
with this in /etc/shadow one.
This happens because there is no (back-working) crypt function,
On Wed, 30 May 2001, Robert Magier wrote:
Values of encrypted passwords are diffrent each time I use makepasswd.
So, how the login program check my password?
I tested if I can login to the system for each of this values ( I write it
down to the /etc/shadow ) and I could.
The crypt()
On Fri, 1 Jun 2001, Izak Burger wrote:
[cut]
The salt is some random value that is used in the encryption
algorithm, two-characters chosen from the set [a-zA-Z0-9./]. These
two characters are then stored as the first two characters of the crypted
password. That way, when you log in, the
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