Hi
I fI am not making a mistake there is difference between md5 checksm and md5
encryption. You could use crypt() perhaps...
Not very sure...
Bye
Shridhar
Sandip Bhattacharya wrote:
> 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?
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