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RE: auth problem - solved partly, if of someone's interest

I believe it's widely known that crypt is a poor cypher, but some
of us are stuck with clients where it's the only one we can use.

-Steve

-----Original Message-----
From: Pierangelo Masarati [mailto:ando@sys-net.it]
Sent: Tuesday, May 20, 2003 12:07 PM
To: Rigler, Steve
Cc: openldap-software@OpenLDAP.org
Subject: RE: auth problem - solved partly, if of someone's interest



> I had the same problem with the OpenLDAP 2.1.x packages SGI provides.
> They weren't configured with "--enable-crypt".  Would be nice to have
> set by default to avoid these gotchas.

It is not because it shouldn't be used at all,
since it's a poor auth cypher.

p.

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Pierangelo Masarati
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