Date: Sat, 28 Jul 2001 19:54:41 +0100 From: Chris Elsworth <chris@shagged.org> To: GB Clark II <gclarkii@geektech.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: MD5 and DES hashes Message-ID: <20010728195441.A45894@shagged.org> In-Reply-To: <01072809385111.81434@prime.vsservices.com>; from gclarkii@geektech.com on Sat, Jul 28, 2001 at 09:38:51AM -0500 References: <20010728012812.A77906@shagged.org> <01072809385111.81434@prime.vsservices.com>
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On Sat, Jul 28, 2001 at 09:38:51AM -0500, GB Clark II wrote:
> 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).
This works for PHP too - thanks :)
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