I wonder how password encryption works At first I thought that thist looks smth like this Encrypted passwords are kept in /etc/shadow When I want to log in . My password is being crypted and then compared with this in /etc/shadow one. This happens because there is no (back-working) crypt function, this normal i think:)
But i did somethink like this Using makepasswd, i generated five times encrypted password test makepasswd --clearfrom=test --crypt test og3NysIaK3F2Q test Xt9Haq8tgqcBs test zAh5NM1W8IxC6 test Rm.d1pCc..Lfc test xSOOXEb6t2r6E Values of encrypted passwords are diffrent each time I use makepasswd. So, how the login program check my password? I tested if I can login to the system for each of this values ( I write it down to the /etc/shadow ) and I could. HOW does it works ? -- ROBERT MAGIER
