Re: Passwd Encryption (Re: Linux security)

1998-08-19 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Wed, 19 Aug 1998, Chris wrote: : On Tue, 18 Aug 1998, Steve Lamb wrote: : : > On Tue, 18 Aug 1998 23:27:40 -0500 (CDT), Nathan E Norman wrote: : > : > >No. The first two characters of the "Encrypted password" field are the : > >"salt"; the plaintext password collected from loogin or wh

Passwd Encryption (Re: Linux security)

1998-08-19 Thread Chris
On Tue, 18 Aug 1998, Steve Lamb wrote: > On Tue, 18 Aug 1998 23:27:40 -0500 (CDT), Nathan E Norman wrote: > > >No. The first two characters of the "Encrypted password" field are the > >"salt"; the plaintext password collected from loogin or wherever is > >crypted using that salt, and the result