[rt-users] question about password encryption

Jesse jesse at fsck.com
Wed Aug 23 13:49:41 EDT 2000


Known deficiency in rt 1.0.  That binary file is only readable by root.
and the passwords are sent in cleartext over http.  it's all quite suboptimal.
rt2 will be better about this.


On Wed, Aug 23, 2000 at 07:02:16PM +0200, Othmar Pasteka wrote:
> hi,
> 
> maybe i missed an important note in the installation/mysql docs
> but the passwords of the users are stored plain text in my
> database (yeah, yeah, it's a binary file but try less ;)).
> pls enlighten me :).
> 
> thanks
> Othmar
> 
> 
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jesse reed vincent --- root at eruditorum.org --- jesse at fsck.com 
pgp keyprint: 50 41 9C 03 D0 BC BC C8 2C B9 77 26 6F E1 EB 91
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