topic Re: How to identify user password encryption algorithm. in Operating System - HP-UX

How to identify user password encryption algorithm.

dslab — Mon, 08 Jun 2015 05:38:04 GMT

I want to identify user password encryption algorithm.

what should I do?

please show me the command or encryption algorithm file.

thank you.

Re: How to identify user password encryption algorithm.

Dennis Handly — Mon, 08 Jun 2015 05:50:04 GMT

What type of security do you have, Standard, Trusted or SMSE?

Re: How to identify user password encryption algorithm.

dslab — Mon, 08 Jun 2015 09:07:30 GMT

Both Standard and Trusted.

Thank you.

Re: How to identify user password encryption algorithm.

RJHall — Mon, 15 Jun 2015 15:05:13 GMT

The current man page for security(4) indicates that crypt(3C) uses a DES-based algorithm unless you change the CRYPT_DEFAULT setting in the /etc/default/security file. Supposedly other hashes start with a $#$, where '#' is, for example, equal to 6 when the hashing algorithm is set to SHA-512.