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Re: basic_auth plain text password

Maxim Dounin
September 10, 2010 06:18AM
Hello!

On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 10:02:24AM +0300, Darius Damalakas wrote:

> I am running nginx/0.8.50, and i am using "auth_basic" for basic
> authentication. Now what i have found so far is that it looks like
> nginx is treating the passwords as plain text. My basic idea is that
> Nginx does not encrypt the password that it gets with MD5 or any other
> algorithm, and simply checks password that is sent as plain text.
> is this true or am i missing something?

[...]

> I've found on google some mails in mailing lists that tell that this
> might not yet be implemented (can't find that URL now).
> And, by the way, OS is WinXP.

Windows has no crypt() function and only plain text passwords are
supported for now.

Maxim Dounin

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basic_auth plain text password

Darius Damalakas September 10, 2010 03:06AM

Re: basic_auth plain text password

Maxim Dounin September 10, 2010 06:18AM

Re: basic_auth plain text password

Darius Damalakas September 10, 2010 08:08AM



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