On Sun, 26 Aug 2001, Tamas TEVESZ wrote:
> $ htpasswd -bcd authtab vida ginzeng
> which resulted in an authtab file as:
> vida:p1tMAeZ.nHWNU
>
> sure looks as crypt(3). to me, at least.
Well, it's best to make sure. I ran my crypt() test program, and it does
give p1tMAeZ.nHWNU as the crypted value.
> now i changed the abovementioned condition to be "crypteq" instead of
> "eq", and... authentication failed. (nothing else has been vchanged,
> just "eq" to "crypteq", and the password went crypted).
>
> is there anything i'm not aware of ? does one have to use crypteq
> differently than eq (i dont think... not of what spec says, at
> least)..
It looks as though it should work. Indeed, a simple Exim test does work:
$ exim -be
> ${if crypteq{ginzeng}{p1tMAeZ.nHWNU}{yes}{no}}
yes
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