On Sun, 5 Jan 2003 02:52:45 +0900, Dalibor Sramek <dali / insula.cz>
wrote:

>On Sat, Jan 04, 2003 at 01:15:18PM +0900, gabriele renzi wrote:
>> >I meant to ask. is there a way to specify the salt ??
>> I suppose you're rferring to the ~md5 format of BSD 
>> (imported in other system) passwd files.
>> That's not the real MD5, but something alike.
>> Probably they're just adding a salt string to the password, 
>> maybe simply concatenating them, dunno .
>
>Look at
>http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/~checkout~/src/lib/libcrypt/crypt-md5.c?rev=1.12&content-type=text/plain


thanks ,  interesting to see I was not so far from the truth :)