On Fri, Sep 07, 2007 at 11:17:18AM -0700, semi linux wrote:
it and trying to kickstart from it - no change. (I thought there was only one right answer, but if I reset my password and type the same thing, the crypted string changes slightly everytime.)
Traditionally, a password can be encrypted using crypt() in 4096 different ways; the first two characters indicate which one of the 4096 versions was used.
In modern unix systems stronger methods than the old DES crypt() version can be used.
The only thin I can think of is that maybe my crypted password contains an escape sequence that might not be properly handled in anaconda?
The traditional crypt strings are from a limited set 64 characters and are always 13 characters long. GNU libc can use md5 based encryption (the first 3 characters are $1$ and are up to 34 characters in length) but are still from the character set [a-zA-Z0-9./]