[Freeciv-Dev] Re: Passwd auth with MD5 hash

[Bernd Jendrissek <berndj@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

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In article <Pine.LNX.4.04.10108210212560.20552-100000@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 
Trent Piepho <xyzzy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>On Tue, 21 Aug 2001, Raimar Falke wrote:
>> I don't see the md5 method.
>
>It was in the call to crypt(), except my crypt manpage says it uses a
>variation of DES not md5.  Is crypt() portable to non-UNIX systems though?

IIRC glibc (note: *g*libc) crypt(3) has a feature where, if the first two
chars of salt are "$1" or somesuch, the algorithm used is MD5.

>The salt generation code looked like a mess to me.  My manpage says salt is
>just a two characters.  There is no need to mess with it so much either, just

Except when it starts with '$1' and you're using the GNU C library.

Bernd Jendrissek
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