[geeks] Encrypted hash question

[Bill Bradford]

On Thu, Jun 17, 2004 at 05:48:36AM +1200, James Braid wrote:
> They dont "look right" for SHA1; a standard SHA1 160-bit hash is 
> normally 40 characters long when stored as a plain text string (and only 
> has hex digits in it).  But the application could have munged them or 
> something. Maybe they are weirdly crypt()'d or something.
> 
> If you have the source for the app it should be easy enough to find how 
> it stores the passwords, and then change the app's password once you 
> have the root pw for MySQL.

If I've got a mysqldump of the entire mysql installation on that
box, how would you go around finding out what hash method its using?
Is that possible?

Bill

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bill bradford
austin texas