Re: Md5 Password

Mathieu Arnold <[email protected]> Sat, 24 Dec 2005 14:35:58 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.network.pureftpd.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
+-le 24/12/2005 14:35 +0100, Lars Staun Knudsen écrivait :
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| Mathieu Arnold wrote:
|> It make sense because your libcrypt supports des, md5, ... and recognise it
|> by looking at the digit between the 2 first $. (see crypt(3)).
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| So crypt is an overall thing and by writing crypt i call a library
| that support MD5 and others.
| But why call the overall thing and not directly md5 when i'm using
| md5, that part i still dont get..? It is a default md5 i'm using right?

If you choose md5, you should do, say :

$ echo foo | openssl dgst -md5
d3b07384d113edec49eaa6238ad5ff00

And that's your md5 hashed password.

-- 
Mathieu Arnold

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