On 13/03/18 09:47 AM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
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On Tue, Mar 13, 2018 at 05:25:18PM +0100, Sven Hartge wrote:
Adam Weremczuk <ad...@matrixscience.com> wrote:
I think it was me invoking "passwd" as root and aborting (ctrl+D)
without making any changes. Would that be enough to update the shadow
file?
No.
You can't reverse a hash and to generate a new hash the code needs the
password for the user in plain.
Well, to be fair, the change to SHA-1 is because you can "reverse"
MD5 all too easily (where reverse just means that you find something
which hashes to a given hash, which hasn't to resemble your original
password all too much). Usually you want this something to have
some properties to be useful.
But I don't think your operating system is going to do that behind
your back ;-)
Not if it's Linux, anyway...
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