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Re: accounts

On Tue, Jul 09, 2002 at 10:43:13AM -0500, Ophidian wrote:
> where to i look to see what encryption algo is being used for the shadow?

It's fairly obvious.  Just look at the password field (the second one)
in /etc/shadow.  An old-style crypt() password is 13 characters.  A
MD5 password is 34 characters (IIRC), and always starts with "$1$".

If you are running Red Hat, you can run "authconfig" to turn on/off
the various password-related options.

Steve
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