On Thu, Jun 08, 2000 at 10:25:44AM +0530, Raju Mathur wrote:
> Hi Kedar, Arun,
>
> On my system my script produces passwords indistinguishable from those
> in /etc/shadow, upto the $1$<salt>$.
You're right.
> Arun> Your script = md5 + base64 encoding
That's incorrect. As you said, your script does the same thing as
/etc/shadow.
Here's one more way of doing the same:
$ python
Python 1.5.2 (#2, Feb 24 2000, 21:47:22) [GCC 2.95.2 19991024 (release)] on freebsd4
Copyright 1991-1995 Stichting Mathematisch Centrum, Amsterdam
>>> import crypt
>>> crypt.crypt("foo", "bar")
'$1$bar$gJTJurciWk9pIaPpodyiw.'
-Arun
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