From: John Schmitt nuon...@yahoo.com
Where did you get the idea of hashes in config files?
I got them from looking at the default configuration files in my
distribution, Fedora 11.
Oh. Fedora.
Now I get it...
Have you read http://jabberd2.xiaoka.com/wiki/InstallGuide ?
Yes. I see mention
From: John Schmitt nuon...@yahoo.com
Could I just enter the plaintext password there?
You enter the password, not the hash to the config file.
Would that make my setup less secure?
Why would that?
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Tomasz Sterna
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Hi Tomasz, thanks for replying.
On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 11:11:49AM +0200, Tomasz Sterna wrote:
From: John Schmitt nuon...@yahoo.com
Could I just enter the plaintext password there?
You enter the password, not the hash to the config file.
How was that long string derived from secret
From: John Schmitt nuon...@yahoo.com
Could I just enter the plaintext password there?
You enter the password, not the hash to the config file.
How was that long string derived from secret generated? Why was it used
rather than a plain text password? How can I generate my own?
Where did you
On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 09:28:21PM +0200, Reinhard Max wrote:
Hi,
Thank you very much for your explanation. You've corrected several
assumptions, one of which was that the password was statically set by the
jabber developers. This explains a lot and allows me to proceed with my setup.
