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Re: basic_auth plain text password

Darius Damalakas
September 10, 2010 08:08AM
Thanks for answer

2010/9/10 Maxim Dounin <mdounin@mdounin.ru>:
> 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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Darius Damalakas

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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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