On Jan 5, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: >Can someone please explain what the SALT is used for, HOW should it be set, >that is, >how many characters long it should be etc. > >There is little explanation besides the example in the manual, as well as >on the camel book.
The documentation points you to crypt(3), which if you have installed is available via 'man 3 crypt' or 'man -s 3 crypt' depending on what type of man you are^Whave installed. Here's something you might like to read: http://www.pobox.com/~japhy/docs/crypt -- Jeff "japhy" Pinyan [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pobox.com/~japhy/ RPI Acacia brother #734 http://www.perlmonks.org/ http://www.cpan.org/ ** Look for "Regular Expressions in Perl" published by Manning, in 2002 ** <stu> what does y/// stand for? <tenderpuss> why, yansliterate of course. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]