Try passing the entire encrypted password to the crypt function. This
should use the same first hash and produce the same encrypted string.
in php this is done using crypt("encryptme", "salt")
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Dec 10, 2004, at 5:24 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Thanks for the reply, the problem though is if you crypt the current
password it does not turn out like the encrypted password above. I get
different results when using the function from the link you provided.
This
is the password I get when I encrypt the same password in the original
email:
$1$34201110$1qOlP6BW44jKvA66l7q7F0
and if I refresh it:
$1$20202818$O9l6HCdGD19SqriwI8F4k0
That's expected. The first 11 (or so) characters are random data
called the "salt". The actual password (encoded using the salt)
appears after the salt.
This is done to make it more difficult to build a dictionary of
encrypted passwords. Any given cleartext password can have a large
number of possible encrypted versions.
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Hmm this is strange, but logging in via webmail with the old password
worked until I logged in with my new password. Now new password works and
old password doesnt. Could be caching connection, dunno if imapproxy could
be the culprit. Thanks for the feedback. Seems to be working!
Robert
