Re: [Help-gnu-radius] password encryption and PHP

[Sergey Poznyakoff]

Gary Landers <address@hidden> wrote:

> I think I have everything installed and working, the passwords evidently
> still need to be encrypted in the mysql databases, I was wondering if any
> one had used the php md5 function to encrypt the passwords and if that would
> work.

No, it would not. An MD5 hash cannot be used instead of MD5 encrypted
password. The main difference between them is that the latter contains
the salt used to generate the hash, whereas the former does not.

Regards,
Sergey