Re: patchinfo: 2165 Extra Auth-Type "Crypt-Unix" for unix crypt() password check

Sergey Poznyakoff <[email protected]> Thu, 30 Oct 2003 00:31:59 +0200

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.gnu.radius.bugs
Organization	Farlep-Internet
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

Maurice Makaay <[email protected]> wrote:

> 2165 Extra Auth-Type "Crypt-Unix" for unix crypt() password check
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> We always have used our unix crypted password files for authentication
> and do not have the clear text passwords of our users out of security
> precautions. Therefore we could not use gnu-radius out-of-the-box,
> which uses MD5 for encrypting user passwords. With this patch it

I guess that's some misunderstanding. Auth-Type=Crypt-Local works
for DES as well as for MD5.

-Sergey