Date: Wed, 25 Dec 2013 12:10:26 +0000 From: RW <rwmaillists@googlemail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: setting encrypted password for a user Message-ID: <20131225121026.24d8950d@gumby.homeunix.com> In-Reply-To: <1387876980.48187.YahooMailNeo@web165006.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> References: <1387690591.75236.YahooMailNeo@web165002.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> <79C9317F-84B9-4F8F-8D5F-4DE0B63ED056@fisglobal.com> <20131223005530.352d08fb@gumby.homeunix.com> <1FCEF95A-F37A-4A57-B3A8-AE67776749BE@fisglobal.com> <1387876980.48187.YahooMailNeo@web165006.mail.bf1.yahoo.com>
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On Tue, 24 Dec 2013 01:23:00 -0800 (PST) M. V. wrote: > Hi, > thank you for your answers, > > so if we can't set password by just having MD5, I have to change the > sender program to calculate and send hash of the passwords using > salt. thus: > - ...does anyone know how "salt" is being used in FreeBSD > crypt for encryption? is it a simple concatenation,etc or it's more > complex than that? The latter: http://svn.freebsd.org/base/head/lib/libcrypt/crypt-md5.c
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