On Tue, Jun 20, 2000 at 09:47:54AM -0400, Rich Salz wrote:
> > sql table. I need to initialize the user/passwd data base with the
> > existing data from my current /etc/passwd file (linux).
>
> No can do. The password file format is one-way. You cannot recover the
> password from the password file.
I think the original poster understood this: he would be storing the
DES crypt hashed password from /etc/passwd in his SQL database. New passwords
would be hashed with MD5 crypt instead (he said) and the password verifying
routine would be able to cope with either DES or MD5. No need to extract
plaintext passwords at any point there.
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