Date: Sat, 13 Nov 2004 18:06:56 +0100 From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> To: Ivan Voras <ivoras@fer.hr> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Passwd format? Message-ID: <32180.1100365616@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 13 Nov 2004 17:42:53 %2B0100." <4196398D.2030000@fer.hr>
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In message <4196398D.2030000@fer.hr>, Ivan Voras writes: >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. Search for "md5crypt.c" in google and you'll find the source. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.
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