shadow passwords and mdf

njnear · 08-05-2003, 11:01 PM

I'm a newbie and am trying to get familiar with shadow passwords and md5 encryption. I notice that my root password starts with $1$, but none of my other user passwords do. If I've read correctly, the $1$ indicates md5 encryption.

If md5 is enabled on my machine, who do no other passwords start with $1$?

tarballedtux · 08-05-2003, 11:40 PM

Are there any other users on the system that you have set a password for? The users I think your thinking of are users that came with the system and therefore do not usually have a password.

--tarballedtux

njnear · 08-06-2003, 08:22 AM

Yes. I've added a user for myself that is just a normal user for doing work. That user does not have the !$! in the password hash. And, the password hash doesn't seem to be as long.

tarballedtux · 08-06-2003, 12:16 PM

Hmm, what distribution are you using? It seems that some tools that come with some distributions aren't using MD5. I say one page that claimed Yast in SuSe wasn't doing MD5.

--tarballedtux

njnear · 08-06-2003, 02:07 PM

I'm using Redhat 8.0.

tarballedtux · 08-06-2003, 03:41 PM

Try creating another user using the command-line tool "useradd" and see what the results are.

--tarballedtux