title: salt in DES crypt
body: <p>How does the system know for example in an svn environment, where the account is stored inside a .passwd using DES crypt hashing, if the entered password is correct.</p>
  
  <p>Correct me If i'm wrong but if I convert a certain password for example "test" using DES hashing because of the salt there are many possibilities. How does the system (I image it just compares the generated hashes) than know that the entered password is correct?</p>