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Rh 6.1 initial root password encryption
From: ken () OPTUSNET COM AU (Ken Barber)
Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2000 10:57:45 +1100
The initial root password that is set in /etc/shadow by the Red Hat 6.1 installation program is in crypt-style, not MD5. This occurs even if you have chosen MD5 encryption in the initial setup of RH. A change of password _after_ initial setup changes the encryption to MD5. What does this mean? A seemingly long root password set by the administrator is actually truncated to 8 characters. ken@.
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