Re: Encrpted Passwords

On Fri, Nov 07, 2003 at 03:27:26PM -0000, Wayne wrote:
> Hi, is there anyway to encrypt the passwords that bopm uses on the network.  For example like opers have in Unreal, in the scr.conf file etc..
> 
> The reason i ask is my network suffered a security leak somewhere and a bopm password was discovered and used to oper up on my network.  If i am able to encrypt the password like i do with unreal it would help me greatly.
> 
> Many thanks for your time,
> 
> Wayne.

If bopm had enough data to be able to /oper, wouldn't that mean that anyone that found bopm's config would also have enough data to /oper ?

-Erik