Bug#318743: grub-md5-crypt creates wrong md5 keys

[Uwe Kleine-Koenig]

Hello Hansgeorg,

Hansgeorg Schwibbe wrote:
> "grub-md5-crypt" creates different MD5 keys of the same password.
This is not a bug but a feature.  The same holds true for md5sums (and
even crypt) hashes in /etc/shadow.  The sense behind that is that the
admin should not be able to check that two users have the same
passwords. 

> The encrypted passwords are not working with the  "password --md5
> MD5-PASSWORD" option in the "/boot/grub/menu.1st" file.
This is not a very detailed description.  If you want further help send
your non-working menu.lst and the password that you used to generate the
md5sum.

If your problem is solved in the meantime, please close the bug.

Best regards
Uwe

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