Re: New feature: Encrypted gnatsd passwords

[Yngve Svendsen]

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