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Old 03-11-2008
keelba keelba is offline
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Interpreting the encrypted shadow password?
We are currently using a script to copy the same encrypted password between our HP-UX and Solaris servers editing the trusted and shadow files directly. The encrypted password is only 13 characters long on both servers and decrypts the same way. Is there a way to copy this same string to Linux servers?

The encrypted password in the shadow file on one of our Linux servers looks like this:
1$9EmV.jZO$YyfdtPT11aP3hE.jqX7Ve0

I've read the crypt 3 man page but I am not sure how to intrepret it. Any idea if its possible to replace 13 characters in this string to decrypt the same password?