Re: Password encryption with md5, ... in libc6
On 20 Jan 1998, Torsten Hilbrich wrote:
> In BO with libc5 I had trouble with a lot of programs that they don't
> recognize any other password system than no-shadow and shadow. For
> example, su and xlock didn't worked with md5 activated.
>
> Will these problems has been gone with hamm and libc6? I would really
> prefer a password system with more than 8 significant characters in my
> passwords.
For the most part, shadow aware libc6 programs should recognise md5
passwords, since libc6 includes a transparent crypt function that
recognises a md5 salt and does the crypt accordingly. Programs that don't
function should have bugs files against them. The way to make a program
md5crypt aware is to pass the entire encrypted password as the salt to
crypt() instead of just the first two characters.
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Scott K. Ellis <storm@gate.net> http://www.gate.net/~storm/
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