Date: Sat, 13 Nov 2004 17:42:53 +0100 From: Ivan Voras <ivoras@fer.hr> To: current@freebsd.org Subject: Passwd format? Message-ID: <4196398D.2030000@fer.hr>
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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? Thanks!
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