Date: Sun, 16 Aug 1998 13:01:46 +0800 From: Dean Hollister <dean@mushka.ml.org> To: Jon Hamilton <hamilton@pobox.com>, nik@iii.co.uk Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: HTML Password changer Message-ID: <3.0.3.32.19980816130146.03397c34@odyssey.apana.org.au> In-Reply-To: <199806291510.XAA14047@odyssey.apana.org.au> References: <Your message of "Mon, 29 Jun 1998 12:13:05 BST." <19980629121305.46423@iii.co.uk>
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At 10:11 29/06/98 -0500, Jon Hamilton wrote: >It's not quite that simple, although almost. You have to be sure to use >the same salt value, otherwise the unencrypted string could well be correct >and still encrypt to a different encrypted string. See the crypt(3) man page >for details about the salt value; you can use the first two characters of >the old encrypted password string as the salt for your new call to crypt. Hmmm, using Perl, how would I extract the original salt value? Regards, d. +-------------------------------------------------------+ | Dean Hollister, | dean@mushka.ml.org | | Perth, Western Australia. | 12840184 ICQ | +-------------------------------------------------------+ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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