[ale] Verifying a MD5 password?

[cfowler]

Opps one more thing.  I thought the salt is at the beginning of the
password?


On Thu, 2003-02-27 at 14:52, Robert L. Harris wrote:
> 
> 
> We're trying to write a script that can verify passwords against md5
> password entries.  We've got a good mechanism to get the password from
> /etc/shadow but something in the actual computation of the md5 hash of
> the user input is not right.
> 
> Anyone have a good command line or HOWTO I can read through?
> 
> A couple combinations we've tried:
> 
> salt=spudpeel
> password=foo
> 
> #
> echo -n "foospudpeel" | openssl md5 -binary | openssl base64
> u9FAH8zsyXmwYX3pBqLd6Q==
> 
> # trying with a base64 encoded salt
> echo -n "foodc3B1ZHBlZWw=" | openssl md5 -binary | openssl base64
> JmyoP+AVagwGzN0uLF4Mow==
> 
> 
> We've only found a couple docs on how the md5 password hash's are
> generated, nothing that flat out says "do x, do y, do z, shove it in a
> file"...
> 
> Robert
> 
> 
> 
> :wq!
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