[Tutor] something weird

[Alan Gauld]

On 12/12/13 17:13, Paolo Supino wrote:

> print "password hash: " + crypt.crypt("password")
>
>
> When I try to do su - [user] (after copying the hash into /etc/shadow)
> the password accepted is 'password'

You are passing the literal string password to the crypt() call.

I suspect that has something to do with it.

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