Re: Unix passwd file and mysql authentication table

2001-07-27 Thread Don Read
On 27-Jul-2001 Joshua J. Kugler wrote: > Is this an undocumented feature that I missed? You just have to specify the > as TYPE_passwd and it will automatically encrypt using that algorithm? I > don't see anything in the documentation for ENCRYPT about this. Or am I > really missing something

Re: Unix passwd file and mysql authentication table

2001-07-27 Thread Joshua J. Kugler
Is this an undocumented feature that I missed? You just have to specify the as TYPE_passwd and it will automatically encrypt using that algorithm? I don't see anything in the documentation for ENCRYPT about this. Or am I really missing something? Thanks. j-- k- > mysql> select enc

Re: Unix passwd file and mysql authentication table

2001-07-27 Thread Don Read
On 27-Jul-2001 Brad Bonkoski wrote: > > > Don Read wrote: > >> On 26-Jul-2001 sachin shetty wrote: >> > Hi >> > Is it possible to authenticate a logged on user by comparing the unix >> > passwd file entry with the mysql user table entry(after copying passwords >> > from the password file to th

Re: Unix passwd file and mysql authentication table

2001-07-27 Thread Brad Bonkoski
Don Read wrote: > On 26-Jul-2001 sachin shetty wrote: > > Hi > > Is it possible to authenticate a logged on user by comparing the unix > > passwd file entry with the mysql user table entry(after copying passwords > > from the password file to the table). > > The password_crypt routine used in M

RE: Unix passwd file and mysql authentication table

2001-07-27 Thread Don Read
On 26-Jul-2001 sachin shetty wrote: > Hi > Is it possible to authenticate a logged on user by comparing the unix > passwd file entry with the mysql user table entry(after copying passwords > from the password file to the table). The password_crypt routine used in MySQL is incompatible with the D

Unix passwd file and mysql authentication table

2001-07-26 Thread sachin shetty
Hi Is it possible to authenticate a logged on user by comparing the unix passwd file entry with the mysql user table entry(after copying passwords from the password file to the table).If there is a module that handles this during connection of the mysql client to the server, then it saves the risk