Is there a best practice around credential storage?

Hi all, Seeing the comments that come up often about how to make various authentication methods work with password scheme X (for various values of authentication method and scheme) as well as the matrix here: http://deployingradius.com/documents/protocols/compatibility.html I'm left with a question. Is it really industry standard that people store users' passwords in cleartext? It seems to be a requirement, but it is something that gives me pause, as to do so contravenes what are otherwise best practices. -- Coy Hile coy.hile@coyhile.com