From: Pankaj K Garg <gargp@acm.org>
To: David S Gathright <David.Gathright@lasp.colorado.edu>
Cc: help-gnats@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Trouble using encrypted passwords
Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2003 19:58:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3FAFFDA1.9090805@acm.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1068490311.1169.49.camel@red5>
David S Gathright wrote:
> No, I didn't try that, mostly because I don't have root access on that
> machine.
>
> What I guess is most confusing to me is that there are three pieces of
> information: the raw password, the salt, and the encrypted password.
> Now, in the MD5 scheme, the salt is stored with the encrypted password
> ($1$salt$enc_password). However, in the crypt() scheme, there is no
> specified way to store the key, so, how is that done?
Its been a while since I did this, but looking at the code, it seems
that the salt is '$1$', '$2$', etc. Can you try these with the
Python/Perl code and see what happens? The source code in gnatsd.c is
using the C library function 'crypt' with these salts.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-11-10 19:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-11-10 18:33 David S Gathright
2003-11-10 18:48 ` Pankaj K Garg
2003-11-10 19:09 ` David S Gathright
2003-11-10 19:58 ` Pankaj K Garg [this message]
2003-11-10 22:20 ` David S Gathright
2003-11-10 23:54 ` Hans-Albert Schneider
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