[Gllug] passwd and creating passwords

[Richard Cottrill]

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.

What gives?

Richard

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