Re: MySQL obnoxious question

"Adam T. Bowen" <[email protected]> Tue, 19 Feb 2008 22:22:32 +0000

Newsgroups	org.kernel.vger.linux-admin
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Jose Celestino wrote:
>> Problem is MySQL doesn't run external commands.
>>
> 
> All that does is generate a random md5 salt and do an md5 crypt of the
> password. Why would you want to run that on an external command? I
> guess you can easily do it on c#.

If you are going to go this route, you might want to take a look at this 
port of the crypt function:

   http://www.codeproject.com/KB/cs/unixcrypt.aspx

Cheers

Adam