Re: Commands to check encrypted passwords (was Re: Misc Questions.)

2003-01-25 Thread Nathan Kinkade
On Sat, Jan 25, 2003 at 09:48:03PM +0200, Willie Viljoen wrote: > Nathan, > > This won't work, the md5 system command is to generated md5 message digests. > These are very different from salted passwords, which are a one-way > encryption that will almost never be the same. Message digests are al

Commands to check encrypted passwords (was Re: Misc Questions.)

2003-01-25 Thread Willie Viljoen
Nathan, This won't work, the md5 system command is to generated md5 message digests. These are very different from salted passwords, which are a one-way encryption that will almost never be the same. Message digests are always the same, using them to encrypt passwords would be abit silly :) Di