[Pmwiki-users] unix crypt passwords vs. md5 hash

[Greg Morgan]

Thomas -Balu- Walter wrote:

>
>http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.crypt.php
>   Some operating systems support more than one type of encryption. In
>   fact, sometimes the standard DES-based encryption is replaced by an
>   MD5-based encryption algorithm. 
>
>One problem might be that if you move an installation to a system with a
>different encryption method it will not work because the password is
>stored differently.
>  
>
This was the situation I ran into...  On my laptop I used for 
development the version of PHP I was using used the equivalent of the 
Unix crypt command, where my main server was using MD5.  Lucky for me I 
didn't have to many password protected pages and I was able to remove 
the protection by editing the files directly.