On Thu, Jun 08, 2000 at 09:25:05AM +0530, Robin Chatterjee wrote:
> 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...
If you're using DES crypt, this concept is called the "salt". See crypt(3).
-Arun
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