Date: Sun, 14 Nov 2004 14:25:33 -0800 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Ivan Voras <ivoras@fer.hr> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Passwd format? Message-ID: <20041114222533.GA17027@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <4196398D.2030000@fer.hr> References: <4196398D.2030000@fer.hr>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Sat, Nov 13, 2004 at 05:42:53PM +0100, Ivan Voras wrote: > The Handbook and crypt(3) say passwords in master.passwd are MD5 hashes > if they start with $1$, for example: > > $1$DP.s8oCc$VJo0/026/S5ng6HlD1Sz8/ > > the format is $1$salt$rest. I have several questions: > > How are the values encoded? This looks something like base64. > > Is it possible to actually verify the password against this format using > only a bare implementation of the md5 algorithm? > > Actually, the reason for these questions is that I'm considering using > LDAP authentication on a machine with lots of users and I'm wondering if > existing passwd information could be transported to LDAP. Any > experiences/docs on this? man 3 crypt, or see the source code Kris [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFBl9tdWry0BWjoQKURAp5KAJ9G252dF9rGh3WYPAnOBOtigubfBgCgq8ql D+q6F+fMikWEbqwR2mEafoE= =Tlsz -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----help
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