Thus spake Brett McCormick
> 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.
That's what I do. I have both a Tcl and a Python function to encrypt
the password and that's how I store them. You still want to protect
them somewhat but it isn't quite as critical as plain tex passwords.
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