On Fri, Jan 27, 2006 at 06:22:33PM -0500, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
> Mark Bucciarelli writes:
>
> >I'm having trouble getting the mysql authdaemond module to work with MD5
> >password hashes.
> >
> >After "authtest myuser mypass", the log says:
> >
> > authdaemond: supplied password 'mypass' does not match encrypted
> > password '
> > {MD5}a029d0df84eb5549c641e04a9ef389e5
>
> You need to use base64-encoding, not hex-encoding. Something like:
>
> $ perl -e 'use Digest::MD5 qw(md5_base64); print "{MD5}" .
> md5_base64("mypass") . "\n";'
> {MD5}oCnQ34TrVUnGQeBKnvOJ5Q
I see.
Bummer. PHP's md5() uses hex-encoding. I wanted to auth against a
Drupal user db.
What do think about the following proposed mod?
{MD5-16} - use base 16 encoding
{MD5-randomstring} - use base 64
{MD5} - use base 64
I suppose you could also do {MD5-32} for completeness.
m
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