Hello Konstantin, On 09/03/2017 06:16 PM, Konstantin Shemyak wrote: > Signed-off-by: Konstantin Shemyak <konstantin@xxxxxxxxxxx> Some details about how this was verified would be useful for the commit message. Am I correct to assume that the relevant code is the following in crypt/sha512-crypt.c::__sha512_crypt_r() if (*endp == '$') { salt = endp + 1; rounds = MAX (ROUNDS_MIN, MIN (srounds, ROUNDS_MAX)); rounds_custom = true; } and similar in crypt/sha256-crypt.c? Thanks, Michael > --- > man3/crypt.3 | 6 +++--- > 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/man3/crypt.3 b/man3/crypt.3 > index 1bd8509..375ef93 100644 > --- a/man3/crypt.3 > +++ b/man3/crypt.3 > @@ -195,15 +195,15 @@ encryption algorithms. > If > .I salt > is a character string starting with the characters "$\fIid\fP$" > -followed by a string terminated by "$": > +followed by a string optionally terminated by "$", > +then the result has the form: > .RS > .PP > $\fIid\fP$\fIsalt\fP$\fIencrypted\fP > .PP > .RE > -then instead of using the DES machine, > .I id > -identifies the encryption method used and this then determines how the rest > +identifies the encryption method used instead of DES and this then determines how the rest > of the password string is interpreted. > The following values of > .I id > -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-man" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html