[Gllug] passwd and creating passwords

[Jason Clifford]

On Wed, 28 Jan 2004, Richard Cottrill wrote:

> Jason Clifford wrote:
> >>>They key thing to note is that the salt is $1$ followed by 8 more slat 
> >>>characters.
> 
> Why is the '$1$' string significant? The salt is limited to two 
> characters (as far as I can find in man pages and the like), and a '$' 
> is not a legal character in a salt.

We're talking about salt for the md5 hash crypt function.

The $1$ signals the crypt function that you want to use md5 hash and it is 
part of the salt.

Jason Clifford
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