Date: Thu, 16 Mar 1995 18:19:38 +0100 (MET) From: Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> To: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: cern_httpd and passwords Message-ID: <199503161719.SAA17185@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>
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Hi,
we have had a few problems in using the password-related functions
of cern-httpd. We have solved the problem by modifying the calls
to crypt(), but it is not very clear how it works.
We have 950210 snapshot *without* DES (I guess). The problem is,
crypt in the snapshot behaves differently from what the manpage
says: it always return a string longer than 13 chars, with the
format
$1$_saltxxx$encryptedchars
and this happens even when the original salt is two-chars (as in
the old versions of crypt). I remember somebody (Poul ?) discussed
the subject when password encription was changed, but this hasn't
percolated into the documentation.
Are there problems in reverting crypt to behave as usual when a
two-char salt is specified *and* no DES is present ?
Anyways, could somebody modify the crypt manpage appropriately ?
Thanks
Luigi
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