On Jan 5, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:

>Can someone please explain what the SALT is used for, HOW should it be set,
>that is,
>how many characters long it should be etc.
>
>There is little explanation besides the example in the manual, as well as
>on the camel book.

The documentation points you to crypt(3), which if you have installed is
available via 'man 3 crypt' or 'man -s 3 crypt' depending on what type of
man you are^Whave installed.

Here's something you might like to read:

  http://www.pobox.com/~japhy/docs/crypt

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