Passwd format?
Kris Kennaway
kris at obsecurity.org
Sun Nov 14 14:22:49 PST 2004
On Sat, Nov 13, 2004 at 05:42:53PM +0100, Ivan Voras wrote:
> The Handbook and crypt(3) say passwords in master.passwd are MD5 hashes
> if they start with $1$, for example:
>
> $1$DP.s8oCc$VJo0/026/S5ng6HlD1Sz8/
>
> the format is $1$salt$rest. I have several questions:
>
> How are the values encoded? This looks something like base64.
>
> Is it possible to actually verify the password against this format using
> only a bare implementation of the md5 algorithm?
>
> Actually, the reason for these questions is that I'm considering using
> LDAP authentication on a machine with lots of users and I'm wondering if
> existing passwd information could be transported to LDAP. Any
> experiences/docs on this?
man 3 crypt, or see the source code
Kris
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