From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jun 30 08:35:30 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA09565 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 30 Jun 1998 08:35:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from pau-amma.whistle.com (s205m64.whistle.com [207.76.205.64]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA09547 for ; Tue, 30 Jun 1998 08:35:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dhw@whistle.com) Received: (from dhw@localhost) by pau-amma.whistle.com (8.8.8/8.8.7) id IAA28989 for questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 30 Jun 1998 08:34:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dhw) Date: Tue, 30 Jun 1998 08:34:23 -0700 (PDT) From: David Wolfskill Message-Id: <199806301534.IAA28989@pau-amma.whistle.com> To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: HTML Password changer In-Reply-To: <01BDA366.4C857BD0@NOC> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >From: NOC-IPAD >Date: Mon, 29 Jun 1998 14:00:38 -0500 >I'm not sure about modern *nix's, but the salt *used* to be available >in cleartext at the beginning of the "encrypted" password (SVR3.0e, Still is, and the test-encryption should use it (as others have pointed out). david -- David Wolfskill UNIX System Administrator dhw@whistle.com voice: (650) 577-7158 pager: (650) 371-4621 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message