Re: [mv] remoteuser password

[Mike Heins <mikeh@minivend.com>]

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Quoting David Babler (dbabler@rigel.orionsys.com):
> ******    message to minivend-users from David Babler <dbabler@Rigel.orionsys.com>     ******
> 
> 
> 
> On Wed, 17 May 2000, Mike Heins wrote:
> 
> > ******    message to minivend-users from Mike Heins <mikeh@minivend.com>     ******
> > Quoting David Babler (dbabler@rigel.orionsys.com):
> > > 
> > > OKay, I've been over and over this, searched the archives and got even
> > > more confused...
> > > 
> > > I'm running FreeBSD 4.0, Apache-1.3.6/mod_ssl/2.2.8 and MiniVend 4...
> > > 
> > > Problems:
> > > 
> > > 1. The documentation mentions the remote user password as being "encrypted
> > > or unencrypted" and even shows a "blank" encrypted password, however,
> > > makecat never encrypts this field in the catalog.cfg file, leaving it
> > > plaintext...
> > 
> > Makecat gives you the option to either run encrypted or not encrypted.
> > If you have the recommended module set installed, you can hit the <UP>
> > key at the password prompt and it will set an encrypted version of "pass"
> > in the file.
> 
> I see that now, thanks. Some reference somewhere that you can use htpasswd
> to generate passwords would be handy. In a production environment, having
> all new catalogs showing up with exactly the same password wouldn't be
> good. <G>

That is why the prompt says:

NOCRYPT
.
If you set this to 0, passwords will be encrypted in the user
database. If you set this to anything other than zero or a blank
value, passwords will not be encrypted and will be readable in
the user database. You can build encrypted passwords with
the htpasswd command, or other means.
.
You can use your up arrow to look at the encrypted form of
"pass" if you have Term::ReadLine installed.

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