Syslinux - Aug 2006 - Howto create a password for complex menus

Hello

I tried to make my own password hashes for the complex menu. For this, I
searched the SYSLINUX sources and the web and couldn't find any howto
about that. The only information was in the "password" file (max.
40Byte
with DES encryption). Unfortunatly, this was too few for me.

Can you please add to the documentation, that the hashes can be created
with OpenSSL ?

# openssl passwd <password>

I was hunting this for over an hour and I can imagine, that lots of
other people did the same or wasn't been able to do it.

Thank you for this product, I appreciate it a lot.

Sincerly

Andreas

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The actual code is in "password.c". If you need to be able to increase
the size of the hash, you will need to modify the "password.c" code
appropriately to handle larger hash sizes as well.

The simple menu also has some password scheme. If that is good enough
for your use, you can try to use that as a starting point for
"password.c".

Since I will be taking up a new job in a couple of weeks, I am not
sure if I will find the time to do any of this.

- Murali

On 8/15/06, Bollhalder, Andreas <Andreas.Bollhalder at optimo-service.com>
wrote:
> Hello
>
> I tried to make my own password hashes for the complex menu. For this, I
> searched the SYSLINUX sources and the web and couldn't find any howto
> about that. The only information was in the "password" file (max.
40Byte
> with DES encryption). Unfortunatly, this was too few for me.
>
> Can you please add to the documentation, that the hashes can be created
> with OpenSSL ?
>
> # openssl passwd <password>
>
> I was hunting this for over an hour and I can imagine, that lots of
> other people did the same or wasn't been able to do it.
>
> Thank you for this product, I appreciate it a lot.
>
> Sincerly
>
> Andreas
>
> --
> Diese Nachricht wurde auf Viren und andere gef?hrliche Inhalte untersucht
> und ist sauber.
>
>
>
>
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