Hi, Am Mittwoch, 16. März 2005 14:49 schrieb Jeffrey Andrews:
If I told the system to use md5, would I then encrypt the MD5 digest of the password, or the plain text?
In my <security> section:
md5 In my <user> section, the below is the md5 digested password.
EE8863733EF4355A37D566F3DF2AD016
This doesn't look like the proper format needed for the file /etc/shadow as it
seems to be some hex value.
Even if the above value turned up in /etc/shadow (if it did at least your
xml-configuration seems okay) you could not log in.
Let's say your password is supposed to be suse.
You get the proper hash for example with mkpasswd (package whois):
mkpasswd --hash=md5
Passwort:suse
$1$jJaKReiE$a4DK5UhFrvbg8hDX4nXrj.
The last line is what you cut and paste between