On Monday, 12. November 2001 09:55, sze4041 wrote: [...] > What I mean why I can store the password in hash form (like > MD5) etc ? Because you can't authenticate with the hash (and you can't extract the password from the hash). Yours Stephan Siano -- Stephan Siano Mail: Stephan.Siano@suse.de SuSE Linux Solutions AG Phone: 06196 50951 31 Mergenthalerallee 45-47 Fax: 06196 409607 D-65760 Eschborn