The since the script will be used on win only i went for always plain text.
Can emulaion crypt on platforms that don't support it? or will this be to slow?
On 4/11/06, William A. Rowe, Jr. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Jorge Schrauwen wrote:
> I was wondering this too while parsing htpasswd files in php.
> all others have a identified in front to see what encrypt it used...
> Why doesn't crypt have one?
Because why would anyone have a passwd file that doesn't use crypt()?
Have to remember htpasswd followed the passwd shadow file, and that was always
using crypt. Nobody at the time foresaw a reason to do anything else. The
identifier tags came later. Why plain didn't gain an identifier tag is beyond me.
Bill
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~Jorge
