Re: Trouble using encrypted passwords

[David S Gathright]

No, I didn't try that, mostly because I don't have root access on that
machine. 

What I guess is most confusing to me is that there are three pieces of
information:  the raw password, the salt, and the encrypted password. 
Now, in the MD5 scheme, the salt is stored with the encrypted password
($1$salt$enc_password).  However, in the crypt() scheme, there is no
specified way to store the key, so, how is that done?

Thanks for the try, though.  I can resort to that if needed, but I'd
rather not if there is a simpler way.

DSG

On Mon, 2003-11-10 at 12:38, Pankaj K Garg wrote:
> David S Gathright wrote:
> 
> > Hi, all.
> > 
> > I'm using a vanilla GNATS 4.0 installation on a Solaris 5.9 box.  For
> > some reason, MD5 encryption isn't working for me, so I'm trying standard
> > UNIX crypt() encryption.  I'm rather perplexed at the statement in
> > Appendix C of the gnats documentation, which states that "crypt()
> > passwords can be generated by using standard UNIX passwords tools". 
> > What tools are these (and do you have any examples of how I can use
> > them)?
> 
> Did you try generating the passwords using the 'passwd' command and then 
> cuting and pasting from /etc/passwd or /etc/shadow?
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David S Gathright <address@hidden>
LASP - University of Colorado