On Sun, Feb 22, 2015 at 10:36 PM, Matthew Miller
wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 22, 2015 at 11:23:45AM -0700, Chris Murphy wrote:
>> Curiously, Anaconda calls authconfig to create the key, and the resulting
>> shadow entry contains a 16 character salt. Whereas passwd uses an 8
>> character salt.
>
> Huh, th
On Sun, Feb 22, 2015 at 11:23:45AM -0700, Chris Murphy wrote:
> Curiously, Anaconda calls authconfig to create the key, and the resulting
> shadow entry contains a 16 character salt. Whereas passwd uses an 8
> character salt.
Huh, that is curious. I assume we really want to be using the 16-char
sa
On Sun, Feb 22, 2015 at 5:01 PM, Alex Regan wrote:
> Do you happen to know if there's a pre-built version of John-the-Ripper or
> another password testing program that's available and works with these new
> passwords?
I don't know that this is all that new. It's also self-describing, the
/etc/sha
Hi,
On 02/22/2015 01:23 PM, Chris Murphy wrote:
On Sat, Feb 21, 2015 at 11:58 PM, Matthew Miller
mailto:mat...@fedoraproject.org>> wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 21, 2015 at 06:07:18PM -0700, Chris Murphy wrote:
>> I read this:
>> http://www.aychedee.com/2012/03/14/etc_shadow-password-hash-formats/
>>
On Sat, Feb 21, 2015 at 11:58 PM, Matthew Miller
wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 21, 2015 at 06:07:18PM -0700, Chris Murphy wrote:
>> I read this:
>> http://www.aychedee.com/2012/03/14/etc_shadow-password-hash-formats/
>> But Fedora doesn't have mkpasswd by default, whereas passwd seems to
>> only update sha
On Sat, Feb 21, 2015 at 06:07:18PM -0700, Chris Murphy wrote:
> I read this:
> http://www.aychedee.com/2012/03/14/etc_shadow-password-hash-formats/
> But Fedora doesn't have mkpasswd by default, whereas passwd seems to
> only update shadow rather than outputting to stdout. And if there's a
> salt u
On Sat, Feb 21, 2015 at 6:32 PM, jd1008 wrote:
> Why not just download
> http://mirrors.kernel.org/fedora/releases/21/Everything/source/SRPMS/p/asswd-0.79.tar.bz2
> and read the source code :)
> There are macros you will need to look at as well
I've already looked at passwd.c before asking.
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On 02/21/2015 06:07 PM, Chris Murphy wrote:
I'm curious about how the hash in /etc/passwd is generated.
I know it's SHA512 based, since the 2nd field starts with $6$. But the
characters that follow aren't a SHA512 hash. It looks like it was run
through base64.
I read this:
http://www.aychedee.
