I *think* this might be something to do with the fact that the unix
(linux?) passwords include some sort of timestamp to ensure that a user
with the same username and password doesn't end up with the same
encrypted password each time.
i.e. if user foo sets password bar at 10:00 am and then changes it , and
then sets it back to bar at 11:00 am it shouldn't look the same when
encrypted. am i right about this ? I guess the best way to check would
be to dig in the source code of pam...
Cheerio
Robin
Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
>
> Kedar Patankar saw fit to inform LI that:
>
> >#!/usr/bin/perl
> >use MIME::Base64;
> >use MD5;
> >my $passwd = 'very_secret';
> >my $md5 = new MD5;
> >print "{MD5}" . encode_base64($md5->hash($passwd,''));
>
> Yep this should do
>
> >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...
>
> Do a google search - it'll pick up the relevant hits from the openldap
> list archives :)
>
> --
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> we could with both of them."
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