[plug] MD5 convert

Christian christian at amnet.net.au
Thu Jan 10 09:20:20 WST 2002


On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 07:10:20PM +0800, Brian Tombleson wrote:
> Err, no, I didn't want to convert hashes.  I want the system to check
> existing MD5 hashed passwords with the MD5 algorithm.  The system was built
> (without MD5 turned on) and the passwd+shadow file copied from backup.

You mean this doesn't happen automatically?  I would have thought the
system would use the hash prefix to identify the algorithm to use --
this is the way other systems do it and I always assumed Linux was the
same. 

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