On Sat, Jan 25, 2003 at 09:48:03PM +0200, Willie Viljoen wrote:
> Nathan,
>
> This won't work, the md5 system command is to generated md5 message digests.
> These are very different from salted passwords, which are a one-way
> encryption that will almost never be the same. Message digests are always the
> same, using them to encrypt passwords would be abit silly :)
>
> Digests are used (normally) to check the integrity of a downloaded file.
>
> To do this from the command line (without compiling a C program to use it from
> libcrypt) you can use perl, as Matthew Seamon points out:
>
> % perl -e 'print crypt(q{password}, q{$1$xxxxxxxx$}), "\n";'
> $1$xxxxxxxx$UYCIxa628.9qXjpQCjM4a.
>
> In this case, the xxxx's would be the 8 character MD5 salt.
>
> WillWill, Thanks for the clarification! My own ignorance on the subject led me to post bad info to the list! I'll have to read up on all this. Thanks, Nathan -- GPG Public Key ID: 0x4250A04C gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys 4250A04C http://63.105.21.156/gpg_nkinkade_4250A04C.asc
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