Re: Incorporating md5-BSD-style passwd-hash in openldap

["Kurt D. Zeilenga" <Kurt@OpenLDAP.org>]

At 11:07 AM 5/4/01, Paulo Matos wrote:
>On Fri, 4 May 2001, Kurt D. Zeilenga wrote:
>
>Kurt> >The issue could be solved by some additional configuration?
>Kurt>
>Kurt> Other than to use adaptive code (such as code which calls
>Kurt> crypt_get_format(3) or like functions) [which is likely a rat
>Kurt> hole], a single configuration option might resolve this.
>Kurt>
>Kurt>         crypt-salt-format "%.2s"
>Kurt>         crypt-salt-format "%.8s"        (default)
>Kurt>         crypt-salt-format "_abcd%.4s"
>Kurt>         crypt-salt-format "$1$%.8s"
>Kurt>         ...
>
>        I believe this would be good enough for me! Note that on last
>case would be:
>              crypt-salt-format "$1$%.8s$"
>
>        Would you need help doing that?

Given that I won't have time to write something like this
for quite some time, I was hoping someone else would
volunteer. :-)

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