Password encrypting
I wonder how password encryption works
At first I thought that thist looks smth like this
Encrypted passwords are kept in /etc/shadow
When I want to log in . My password is being crypted and then compared
with this in /etc/shadow one.
This happens because there is no (back-working) crypt function, this
normal i think:)
But i did somethink like this
Using makepasswd, i generated five times encrypted password test
makepasswd --clearfrom=test --crypt
test og3NysIaK3F2Q
test Xt9Haq8tgqcBs
test zAh5NM1W8IxC6
test Rm.d1pCc..Lfc
test xSOOXEb6t2r6E
Values of encrypted passwords are diffrent each time I use makepasswd.
So, how the login program check my password?
I tested if I can login to the system for each of this values ( I write it
down to the /etc/shadow ) and I could.
HOW does it works ?
--
ROBERT MAGIER
Reply to: