Re: [GENERAL] How passwords can be crypted in postgres?

2001-01-04 Thread Ron Peterson
Gordan Bobic wrote: Here's a crypted password: 00xNyXeahk4NU. I crypted it in perl as crypt(guessme, salt). So what is guessme? The point of a one way hash is that it's, well, one way. Pretty much the only way you're going to figure out what password that encrypted string

Re: [GENERAL] How passwords can be crypted in postgres?

2001-01-04 Thread GH
On Thu, Jan 04, 2001 at 10:53:12PM -0500, some SMTP stream spewed forth: Gordan Bobic wrote: Here's a crypted password: 00xNyXeahk4NU. I crypted it in perl as crypt(guessme, salt). So what is guessme? The point of a one way hash is that it's, well, one way. Pretty much the

Re: [GENERAL] How passwords can be crypted in postgres?

2001-01-02 Thread Gordan Bobic
I usually just run 'crypt()' on the clear text before storing it to the backend ... Isn't this just as bad? If you store the encrypted password, that doesn't help you in the slightest in this case, because if you can breach the list of encrypted passwords, you still know what you need to send

Re: [GENERAL] How passwords can be crypted in postgres?

2001-01-02 Thread Jens Hartwig
[...] Isn't this just as bad? If you store the encrypted password, that doesn't help you in the slightest in this case, because if you can breach the list of encrypted passwords, you still know what you need to send as the "password" from the front end to let you into the database. [...]

Re: [GENERAL] How passwords can be crypted in postgres?

2001-01-02 Thread Gordan Bobic
[...] Isn't this just as bad? If you store the encrypted password, that doesn't help you in the slightest in this case, because if you can breach the list of encrypted passwords, you still know what you need to send as the "password" from the front end to let you into the database.

Re: [GENERAL] How passwords can be crypted in postgres?

2001-01-02 Thread Karl DeBisschop
Jens Hartwig wrote: [...] Isn't this just as bad? If you store the encrypted password, that doesn't help you in the slightest in this case, because if you can breach the list of encrypted passwords, you still know what you need to send as the "password" from the front end to let you

[GENERAL] How passwords can be crypted in postgres?

2000-12-29 Thread ouldm
Hello, I order to escape from .htaccess, I want to save user passwords in my database. However, passwords appear clear in the database. How passwords can be crypted in the database? I use PHP 3.0.16, Cobalt Raq3i. Thanks

Re: [GENERAL] How passwords can be crypted in postgres?

2000-12-29 Thread The Hermit Hacker
I usually just run 'crypt()' on the clear text before storing it to the backend ... On Fri, 22 Dec 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I order to escape from .htaccess, I want to save user passwords in my database. However, passwords appear clear in the database. How passwords can be

Re: [GENERAL] How passwords can be crypted in postgres?

2000-12-29 Thread Steve Wolfe
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I order to escape from .htaccess, I want to save user passwords in my database. However, passwords appear clear in the database. How passwords can be crypted in the database? I use PHP 3.0.16, Cobalt Raq3i. Hmmm linux users that haven't heard of