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Re: New feature: Encrypted gnatsd passwords
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