On 8/21/07, Dan Cowsill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I started having problems with my boot password not too long after I > changed it and I stumbled upon something altogether weird. > > The following is a copy of what grub is giving me for an md5 hash: > > -- > > grub> md5crypt > > Password: **** > Encrypted: $1$vhwK6$dV.xpYBymjq7.cZVnFZYe0 > > grub> md5crypt > > Password: **** > Encrypted: $1$miwK6$BKU11//PyeKMxtgiCbEeZ0 > > grub> md5crypt > > Password: **** > Encrypted: $1$njwK6$3KqXwDtPqGm6cBGQgSl2.0 > > grub> md5crypt > > Password: **** > Encrypted: $1$YkwK6$QCQguFhrGofbJXYnA62J91 > > grub> > > -- > > Now, keep in mind that the word I'm typing is 'test'. No > capitalization, no spaces, no nonsense. And yet the hashes md5crypt > returns are all different. Now, that's no good if you ask me. > > Is anyone else experiencing the same issue? >
Yes. But all hashes are works. May be this is not actually md5? -- Vladimir Rusinov GreenMice Solutions: IT-решения на базе Linux http://greenmice.info/
