On Sun, 22 Aug 1999, Gerard Paul Java wrote:
> No, MD5 encrypt is not a Debian thing or anything distribution-specific.
> On my old Slackware systems I installed shadow passwording with MD5
> encryption enabled. It depends on the shadow package or its equivalent in
> your distribution.
It's a glibc 2.x thing as far as I can tell. if you pass a properly
formatted MD5 "salt" to the standard crypt() function then it will
generate an MD5 password automatically. Thus you can check passwords
without regard for their format.
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