[ale] Grub password

[Scott Warfield]

I sooooooo love stupid developer tricks.  Typos are your friend.  It works
as I described.

-----Original Message-----
From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of Scott
Warfield
Sent: Wednesday, November 24, 2004 12:10 PM
To: 'Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts'
Subject: [ale] Grub password

So we know that we can use grub-md5-crypt to generate a grub passwod.  The
hash is then generated as such:  $1$[seed]$[hash].  In perl we can generate
something similar by using "$hash=crypt([password],[seed]);", where seed is
"\$1\$xxxxxx".

However, if you use the perl generated hash, the password wont work in grub.
Does any know why that is?  I'm trying to automate a grub password
installation with perl.

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Scott Warfield
Internet Security Systems
X-Force Developer
 
swarfield at iss.net
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