Changeset 5073 [1] added support for Unix DES crypt passwords (see ticket 3316 [2] for discussion).
Many systems use MD5-based crypt shadow passwords (see e.g. man 3 crypt or its on-line version [3], under heading "GNU Extension"). This extension to the crypt library prefixes the encrypted password with "$1$<up-to-8-character-salt>$" instead of the 2-character salt. Django uses dollar signs ($) to delimit the algorithm, salt and encrypted password in the contrib.auth.models.User.password string. The choice of delimiter collides with glibc2 crypt. Apart from that MD5 crypt passwords should just work with the current code. I added a ticket [4] for this and submitted three different solutions as patches. I bumped into this issue when creating a Django-based web interface for a virtual host based e-mail service, and I needed to migrate a number of Linux user accounts along with their passwords to Django. [1] http://code.djangoproject.com/changeset/5073 [2] http://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/3316 [3] http://linux.die.net/man/3/crypt [4] http://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/6028 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django developers" group. To post to this group, send email to django-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-developers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
