[Cialug] Shadow not MD5?

Josh More morej at alliancetechnologies.net
Sun Nov 9 17:56:28 CST 2008


Shadow can be SHA, MD5 or Blowfish.  (DES might still work, but you
really shouldn't use it even if you can).



-Josh More, RHCE, CISSP, NCLP, GIAC 
 morej at alliancetechnologies.net 
 515-245-7701

>>> "Todd Walton" <tdwalton at gmail.com> 11/09/08 5:43 PM >>>
I thought that /etc/shadow had the md5 hash of my password.  But when
I hash my password it doesn't come out looking like what's in
/etc/shadow.

How does that work?

-todd
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