On Fri, 28 Jul 2000, Tom Fitzgerald wrote:
> 3) To use encrypted authentication with clients older than MacOS 9, the
> user passwords must be stored in cleartext on the server. This isn't
> actually as much of a problem as one might think, since anyone who can
> break in far enough to get the passwords could also get the passwords
> by other means even if they were encrypted on disk.
I have to disagree with this. I have DHX encrypted logins working with
my mac running OS 8.6. This is using PAM and a regular /etc/passwd file
on the server. Maybe this is only true for randnum encryption?
Andy
