On Wed, Jun 07, 2000 at 07:19:23PM +0530, Kedar Patankar wrote:
> And to top it all, the three outputs: viz. /etc/shadow, md5sum and this
> perl script, ***don't*** match eachother... What the hell is happening
> here? I guess I have to ask this on openldap mailing lists...
md5sum = pure md5 algorithm
/etc/shadow - appends a special prefix ($1$) to distinguish from a DES
encrypted password
Your script = md5 + base64 encoding
-Arun
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