Re: crypt() and md5

That means that you do have MD5 crypt() support. If you simply provide a salt that starts with $1$ you should get an md5-encrypted password. If you look in a passwd or shadow file that contains md5'ed passwords you will see something like this: $1$rZelmysN$Gj0rbqD76STIotGExxpna1 ^^^^^^^^^^^^ SALT So to generate a password like this you would do: crypt($string,'$1$rZelmysN$'); -Rasmus On Mon, 23 Apr 2001, Niklas Neumann wrote: > Hello all, > > i would like to crypt a password as secure as possible. > The documentation says crypt() will use DES unless MD5 is available. > > But in my case this doesn't seem to work. > > 'echo CRYPT_STD_DES ;' returns 1 > 'echo CRYPT_EXT_DES;' returns 0 > 'echo CRYPT_MD5;' returns 1 > 'echo CRYPT_BLOWFISH;' returns 0 > > so i will asume, that MD5 is available on my system. But > 'echo CRYPT_SALT_LENGTH;' returns 2 > and if i test 'crypt('test')' > the string is only encrypted with DES. > > Anybody had similar expieriences? Is this a bug or an error on my side? > > Best regards > Niklas Neumann >