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Re: Can I distribute salted-hashed passwords on different machines?



Marco Pizzoli wrote:
> I think I already know the answer, but I would like to be absolutely sure
> about it.
> Could I generate a {SSHA1} hash of a password (to be used for the rootdn
> account) with the help of slappasswd utility on a system and reuse that salted
> hash for the very same purpose but on a different operating system?

{SSHA} (salted SHA-1) is platform-independent.

In opposite to that {CRYPT} is not the same on all platforms depending on
implemented hash-schemes of crypt(3) function.

Ciao, Michael.


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