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Posted by David Haynes on 06/13/06 20:50
Vincent Pirez wrote:
> David,
>
> Ahhh i get it now, by crypt()'ing the password against the shadow password
> it somehow verifies.....I'm curious how this works, but don't need an
> explanation unless anyone's willing to offer one?
The first 'n' characters of any encrypted password is the salt used to
create the password. By supplying an encrypted password as the salt, you
are essentially providing the salt.
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> Fact of the matter is it works, and is verifying nicely - many thanks for
> your help David :)
Cool! Glad its working out for you.
-david-
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