Re: MD5 passwords
On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 12:05:01AM +0200, Marco Gerards wrote:
> Why does Debian GNU/Hurd use DES encrypted passwords instead of MD5
> encrypted passwords?
I think that this is the default on Debian GNU/Linux as well, for legacy
reasons.
> I have tested MD5 passwords on the Hurd (I've copied a /etc/shadow
> entry from my GNU/Linux installation to my /etc/shadow on Debian
> GNU/Hurd and logged in). This works. libshouldbeinlibc wasn't written
> to support this(I assume because of the crypt prototype there), but it
> supports it because of the way glibc works.
I am not sure how you would set it up so that passwd etc store passwords in
the MD5 format, though.
> I wonder if no-one knew it works (some people claimed it didn't works
> and because of that I had a look) or if it wasn't enabled because I'm
> stupid and don't understand debian.
I think that nobody ever thought about it.
Thanks,
Marcus
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