[TriLUG] Need to compare pw's

[Roy Vestal]

That's the issue. Some will, some won't.  :-/

Warren Myers wrote:
> if they're using the same salt, it's a cinch - strait up string comparison
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> if it's different, I don't know
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> WMM
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> On 2/12/07, Roy Vestal <rvestal at trilug.org> wrote:
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>> Folks,
>>   I need to compare passwords among differing *nix boxes. I need to
>> verify the different hashes on the boxes and determine if they are the
>> same or different. *I do NOT need to crack them!!*
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>> Does anyone know a simple procedure on comparing 2 passwords using the
>> hashes? I can sed/grep/awk whatever to get the hashes out of the
>> password files (names will *not* be given here for security purposes),
>> but I'm not sure is a simple "if [ $a ne $b ] then..." will work.
>>
>> TIA,
>> Roy
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