From: Mike Williams <mike@gaima.co.uk>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] OT - 2 Questions
Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2006 16:49:53 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200602241649.53976.mike@gaima.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1140796737.10452.6.camel@camille.espersunited.com>
On Friday 24 February 2006 15:58, Michael Sullivan wrote:
> Based on what I read at the link you sent me, I think what I want is the
> following:
>
> CRAM-MD5: Protects the password in transit against eavesdroppers.
> Somewhat good support in clients.
>
> The problem is that the web site doesn't tell me how to create a
> CRAM-MD5 password database...
CRAM-MD5 isn't a good choice.
The password is sent as a hash, based on a randomly generated per connection
string. This means you have no choice but to have the password in plain text
on the server to check against.
Like kashani says, use tls/ssl.
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Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-02-23 19:36 [gentoo-user] OT - 2 Questions Michael Sullivan
2006-02-23 20:41 ` Ernie Schroder
2006-02-23 21:44 ` Michael Sullivan
2006-02-23 21:58 ` Ernie Schroder
2006-02-24 6:18 ` Alexander Skwar
2006-02-24 7:53 ` darren kirby
2006-02-24 15:58 ` Michael Sullivan
2006-02-24 16:35 ` kashani
2006-02-24 16:49 ` Mike Williams [this message]
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