On Sat, Jan 21, 2012 at 08:06:04AM -0800, Don Juan wrote: > On 01/21/2012 07:34 AM, Mantas M. wrote: > >On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 11:04:12PM +0000, Kevin Chadwick wrote: > >>Maybe I missed giving a piece of info. The default password is DES which > >>is really crap and starts with $1 so simply enabling blowfish > >DES is indeed crap, but it hasn't been the default for a long time. > >The $1$ hashes are salted MD5, as crypt(3) can confirm. > > > Then if the default is that then why are default system users, such > as http mail postfix and similar not displaying the $1$ on the > shadow file? Because they *do not have* passwords. "x", "!" or "*" are invalid hash values, and they basically mean "password-based logins are not permitted". -- Mantas M.
