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Hi folks,
Redhat by default uses md5 encrypted shadow passwords. Now we ran into a
particular problem in which we have to read the shadow file and
authenticate users.(No we don't want to use the passwd C libraries)
I noticed a weird thing. Isn't MD5 strings supposed to be in
hexadecimal? The shadow file passwords are not so.
I tried a small experiment. I put the password of a known person in a text
file (without newline) and run md5sum on it. The hash had nothing in
common with the /etc/shadow equivalent. What am i doing wrong?
TIA,
Sandip
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Sandip Bhattacharya
sandipb @ bigfoot.com
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