Does anyone know if redhat is using some odd twist on md5 to store
the passwords in /etc/shadow? I need to authenicate users in the course
of a program I'm writing, but what I pull out of /etc/shadow and what I
calculate (using base64 or hexadec as the result string type) from the
known password are different. Wtf?
The other (distant) possibility is that the Digest::MD5.pm
functions are incorrectly calculating the hash values. Since this module
is used extensively I doubt that... :^)
I guess I could try to harness login(1) somehow, but that sounds a
little grotesque to my ears... ;^)
Thanks in advance for any help.
Mike
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