Re: Linux security
On Tue, 18 Aug 1998 23:27:40 -0500 (CDT), Nathan E Norman wrote:
>No. The first two characters of the "Encrypted password" field are the
>"salt"; the plaintext password collected from loogin or wherever is
>crypted using that salt, and the result compared to the entire field.
Hrm, guess things have changed since the other nutshell book was printed.
:/
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