Re: [cobalt-users] Adduser Script

[flash22@xxxxxxx]

On Fri, 8 Dec 2000, Randy wrote:

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> > It seems the crypt() requires more arguments.
> try this, it packs the crypt with something of which that I have no idea,

It's called 'the salt' , it randomizes the encrypted string so that if 2
people have chosen the same password, the encrypted string will be
different in the password file (so one user can't see that he has the same
password as another, it also makes cracking the password harder since you
can't just make a table of encrypted keys, multiple keys map to 1
password..(it's weak, but this is 30 year old technology here ;)