[ale] Grub password

[Bob Toxen]

Scott,

I don't know the answer.  HOWEVER, thanks for explaining what part of
the passwd "hash" in /etc/shadow is the seed.  I, uh, only knew for
the ancient DES format.

Best regards,
Bob

On Wed, Nov 24, 2004 at 12:10:24PM -0500, Scott Warfield wrote:
> So we know that we can use grub-md5-crypt to generate a grub passwod.  The
> hash is then generated as such:  $1$[seed]$[hash].  In perl we can generate
> something similar by using "$hash=crypt([password],[seed]);", where seed is
> "\$1\$xxxxxx".
> 
> However, if you use the perl generated hash, the password wont work in grub.
> Does any know why that is?  I'm trying to automate a grub password
> installation with perl.
> 
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