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It might be worthwhile to mention that the DES password hash algorithm will only store passwords of up to 8 characters, and will ignore the rest. So if the actual password is longer than that, just getting the first 8 characters right will be enough. Even that alone might be reason enough to switch to another, more modern password hashing scheme. In Ubuntu, the password hash to use when changing a password is usually specified by options to pam_unix.so PAM module in /etc/pam.d/common-password.

telcoM
– telcoM

2019-12-15 11:42:59 +00:00
Commented Dec 15, 2019 at 11:42

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