Hello,
I am puzzled by the following question.Whenever we change our
password and in case our new password resembles even slightly older
passwords, linux refuses to accept the new password and prints a message
saying that it resembles the earlier one. But if I am correct , linux
stores the passwords in an encrypted form.So how could it find out ,if
there is any resemblence??.
Since the crypt algorithm is a one way algorithm ,how can it find
out similarities since the final encrypted text would surely be
different, however similar be two pass phrases...
Can someone please tell me how this thing is done??
-V.Vasant
-Indian Institute Of Information Technology
-Hyderabad
-India
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