Re: /etc/shadow password hash format (migration from SuSE 9.3 to Debian Wheezy)

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Subject: Re: /etc/shadow password hash format (migration from SuSE 9.3 to Debian Wheezy)
From: Chris Davies <chris@roaima.co.uk>
Date: Mon, 27 May 2013 13:54:54 +0100
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Andreas Meile <mailingliste@andreas-meile.ch> asked about /etc/shadow:
> Is there a good overview WWW link about all these
> $<Version>$[<Subversion?>$] formats?

man shadow says of the encrypted password field, "Refer to crypt(3)
for details on how this string is interpreted."

man 3 crypt contains a NOTES section that identifies the ID and describes
its format. Specifically, $6$salt$encrypted is SHA-512.

Chris

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