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

[Patrick Ogay]

>>
> 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.
>

I run into the situation, that my provider changed something, I 
actually  never found out what. .
But crypt() returned a string of  34  (before it was 13). 
It took quite a while, until I found where the problem was.

Proposal: 
Is it possible to put an  err-msg, in case the strings are not the same 
length. Or the algorithm should be checked.

Regards
Patrick Ogay