[ale] crypt? passwd? faulty package?

[jknapka at earthlink.net (Joseph A Knapka)]

attriel wrote:
...
> But it doesn't really matter what salt you use (the script I have takes
> characters 3 and 4 from what you type; it's just something arbitrary :) 
> But the user never knows what their salt is (and it changes everytime they
> change their password).  It's all internal bookkeeping.

Thank you for the explanation. That's exactly what I was looking
for.

Cheers,

-- Joe






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