HELP: authenticate-password
{ $values
- { "shadow" string } { "password" string }
- { "?" boolean } }
+ { "shadow" string } { "password" string }
+ { "?" boolean } }
{ $description "Encodes the provided password and compares it to the encoded password entry from a shadowed password file." } ;
HELP: parse-shadow-password
{ $values
- { "string" string }
- { "magic" string } { "salt" string } { "password" string } }
+ { "string" string }
+ { "magic" string } { "salt" string } { "password" string } }
{ $description "Splits a shadowed password entry into a magic string, a salt, and an encoded password string." } ;
HELP: passwd-md5
{ $values
- { "magic" string } { "salt" string } { "password" string }
- { "bytes" "an md5-shadowed password entry" } }
+ { "magic" string } { "salt" string } { "password" string }
+ { "bytes" "an md5-shadowed password entry" } }
{ $description "Encodes the password with the given magic string and salt to an MD5-shadow password entry." } ;
ARTICLE: "crypto.passwd-md5" "MD5 shadow passwords"