Storing of salt in freeradius

Alan DeKok aland at deployingradius.com
Wed Jan 19 08:14:22 CET 2011


Mark wrote:
> In the event of using salted md5 hashes for passwords, where exactly does one store the salt? There doesn't seem to be a place within the FR config  to do that. Any advice would be much appreciated.

  The salt is stored in the same string as the hashed password.  See
wikipedia for descriptions of how salted passwords work, or "man crypt".

  Alan DeKok.



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