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From: | Yngve Svendsen |
Subject: | Re: New feature: Encrypted gnatsd passwords |
Date: | Wed, 20 Jun 2001 21:52:24 +0200 |
At 14:13 17.06.2001 +0200, Milan Zamazal wrote:
AFAIK there is no standard way to do this. However, the code already contains a check for `$0$' as the plain text password prefix, so I'd suggest to simply document and use it and let the default password format be the DES-encrypted.
I agree. It should be easy to write a shell or Perl script which converts old password files. The administrator could then select whether to keep plaintext passwords (i.e. the script would prefix all existing passwords with $0$) or DES-encrypt the passwords. I'll look into both scripting and changing the default (i.e. non-prefixed) to DES-encrypted. Should be a nice and easy little exercise in C for me.
- Yngve
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