+++ Shanker Balan [linux-india] <22/02/02 12:21 +0530>:
> The Linux hashing scheme (taken from BSD IIRC) uses a MD5 algo with a 8
> char random salt prefixed by "$1$".

the linux md5 and the bsd md5 are a bit different - and md5sum will produce
different results on linux and *bsd :)

        -srs

-- 
Suresh Ramasubramanian  <---->  mallet <at> efn dot org
EMail Sturmbannfuhrer, Lower Middle Class Unix Sysadmin
[Linux One Stanza Tip]  From : <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
LOST #135        -**< Sub : man2txt >**-
To convert man pages to text format (which may be necessary if
printouts are necessary, or you want to clip a large section): 
$man [progname] | col -b > progname.man.txt

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