Geert Stappers wrote: > On Fri, Mar 12, 2004 at 12:51:44PM +0100, Florian Effenberger wrote: > > The installer asks the password for root and optionally the password for the > > normal user account. These passwords are saved in /etc/shadow. > > > > However, they are NOT encrypted with MD5 (i.e. strings beginning with $1$ in > > /etc/shadow), but with DES. When you change passwords via "passwd", they are > > encrypted using MD5 correctly. This is a bug in passwd, which was fixed in a recent version that is not yet in testing. -- see shy jo
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