Re: How to encrypt Passwords?

Peter Moreton wrote:

We have to store the passwords in some hashed or encrypted format and I’m posting the the list to ask how this is done. Can the ‘users’ file support ciphertext passwords? Or do we have to store our users in some SQL database?

The ciphered passwords can be stored anywhere you want. The server supports Crypt-Password, MD5-Password, SMD5-Password, and a whole bunch of others. Alan DeKok.