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> Have we considering using the unix crypt function for passwords? That
> way it wouldn't matter (as much) if people saw the password, and would
> still be (somewhat less) secure.
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> On Thu, 19 February 1998, at 15:55:07, Jan Wieck wrote:
I don't know what the problem with using crypt was. It may be because
he passes a random salt to the user, and the user makes the password
packet with the given salt and returns it to the backend. If we use
crypt, we have to send a plaintext password over the network, don't we?
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Bruce Momjian
maillist@candle.pha.pa.us
