Date: Sat, 28 Jul 2001 09:38:51 -0500 From: GB Clark II <gclarkii@geektech.com> To: Chris Elsworth <chris@shagged.org>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: MD5 and DES hashes Message-ID: <01072809385111.81434@prime.vsservices.com> In-Reply-To: <20010728012812.A77906@shagged.org> References: <20010728012812.A77906@shagged.org>
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On Friday 27 July 2001 19:28, Chris Elsworth wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Would anyone know why my system has just started created DES password
> hashes instead of MD5 ones? Specifically in PHP and Perl, the call to
> crypt() used to give me, as desired, MD5 hashes. But now it's started
> giving me DES hashes. I recently supped and remade world etc,
> mergemaster'ed - so I'm sure it's a recent commit - but does anyone know
> what commit, and why was this done? Should it have happened?
>
> Cheers for any light anyone can shed,
Hi,
As far as I know, you can over ride it by sending crypt a salt of '$1$' that
will force a MD5 crypt. That is how I handle it perl. Take a look at
crypt(3).
GB
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