Re: Trouble using encrypted passwords

[Pankaj K Garg]

David S Gathright wrote:
> 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?

Its been a while since I did this, but looking at the code, it seems 
that the salt is '$1$', '$2$', etc. Can you try these with the 
Python/Perl code and see what happens? The source code in gnatsd.c is 
using the C library function 'crypt' with these salts.


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