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From: Mark Drayton <mark.drayton@izr.com>
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Subject: Re: encryption and master.passwd
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Grant Innes (grant.innes@mirror-image.com) wrote:
> Hi Folks,
> Following this discussion I've realized I don't know how to determine
> whether a password is encrypted with DES or MD5.
> Can someone shed some light on how to do this?

If the encrypted password starts with $1$ it's an MD5 hash.

Cheers,

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Mark Drayton

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