From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Weird behavior of crypt
Date: Fri, 29 Jan 2016 14:44:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160129120919.GB14874@calimero.vinschen.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <56AB4F64.3070807@gmail.com>
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On Jan 29 12:39, Marco Atzeri wrote:
>
>
> On 29/01/2016 12:18, Alexandre Garnier wrote:
> >Hello.
> >I'm trying to do SHA-512 password encryption, but the result is really
> >weird on Cygwin:
> >
> ># On Cygwin(either 32 or 64) 2.4.1-1, latest updates with crypt 1.1-1,
> >libcrypt0 1.1-1, libcrypt-devel 1.1-1
> >$ crypt '$6$7dl4B0fKUimdnR$' test_value
> >$6wOs/zKP2jDM
> >
> >$ python -c 'import crypt; print crypt.crypt("test_value",
> >"$6$7dl4B0fKUimdnR$")' # Python 2.7.10
> >$6wOs/zKP2jDM
> >
> >$ perl -e 'print crypt("test_value", "\$6\$7dl4B0fKUimdnR\$")."\n"' #
> >Perl v5.22.1
> >$6wOs/zKP2jDM
> >
> >Am I missing something?
> >
> >On other system, I get a more expected result:
> >
> ># On Ubuntu 15.04
> >$ mkpasswd --method=SHA-512 test_value 7dl4B0fKUimdnR
> >$6$7dl4B0fKUimdnR$f6gCu.3IfrxhsnJKFnusDH.UudC.lLOSB1G3D1bIboWxlixzBy2xO/3rCKHmzfwekCTvmQd11bPdcsJOaLkCJ.
> >
You're aware that the password field in /etc/passwd is not used, right?
Passwords are checked against the Windows user DB. In fact, /etc/passwd
is not necessary anymore.
> Not SHA-512, see
> /usr/share/doc/crypt/crypt.README
>
> This is the DES-crypt package Version 1.1
>
> It provides a static library libcrypt.a as well as a shared library
> cygcrypt-0.dll together with a link lib libcrypt.dll.a, which export
> the functions
>
> crypt(3)
> encrypt(3)
> setkey(3)
>
> The passwords created by crypt(3) are 56 bit DES encrypted and are
> 100% identical to those created by the Linux crypt().
Right. If you need the hashes for other purposes than /etc/passwd,
you can use `openssl sha512'
Corinna
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-01-29 12:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-01-29 12:03 Alexandre Garnier
2016-01-29 12:09 ` Marco Atzeri
2016-01-29 14:00 ` Ismail Donmez
2016-01-29 14:44 ` Corinna Vinschen [this message]
2016-01-29 15:19 ` Alexandre Garnier
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