On Mon, Oct 25, 2004 at 12:00:24PM +0200, Micha Feigin wrote: > Where is the key used to decrypt the passwords (shadow) files stored? > I want to reinstall an old redhat system with debian, but I wish to > preserve old users and passwords to ease the transition process. > > Thanks Hi Micha, a user enter his password. the login takes that password. it runs the password through a hash function which produces a hash. this hash is compared against the hash that is stored in /etc/password At least that is what I understand. a hash is not 'decryted'. it is compared.
I found this: http://www.nmrc.org/pub/faq/hackfaq/hackfaq-28.html -Kev -- (__) (oo) /------\/ / | || * /\---/\ ~~ ~~ ...."Have you mooed today?"...
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