[dev] passwd - crypt-md5

Max Kalika max at lsit.ucsb.edu
Wed Apr 23 12:24:13 PDT 2003


Quoting "Ian P. Christian" <pookey at pookey.co.uk>:

> I also foudn that the crypt password bit prepends a {crypt} on it.  I
> don't know why it does that.

That one confused me as well.  I took it off locally and everything is
honkey-dory.  Eric (or someone else who knows about this), what was the
{crypt} for?

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