Password

[Anon]

Hi,

I am trying to generate a simple crypt password which will be written to the 'qmail' poppasswd file.

Although generating the password is not a problem, the password geberated and written do not allow user login to POP server.

I am not sure if php crypt will generate the type of password i am looking for, and I don't want to go Perls way to get this small job done.

One of the things I notice about the password being generated is, the encryption is always the same for the same password. This is obviously not good 🙂

Here is the basic code :

$rand='~test123';
$salt = substr($rand, 0, 2);
$enc_pw = crypt($rand, $salt);
echo $rand . "<br>" . $enc_pw;

Any suggestions would be much appreciated.

Thank you.

[Anon]

You can try:
$pw="password";
$enc_pw = md5($pw);

[lawnmowerman]

The salt is the "randomizer" for the crypt function. If you use the first two letters of the plain text password as the sault, the encrypted password will always start with those 2 letters.

Why not use some function of time to generate the salt? Such as the specific second that the script was run.

As long as qmail is using standard DES encrypted passwords, you should be ok with this.

Hope this helps!

-Rich

[Anon]

You sir, are the man 🙂

md5 didn't work, but simply crypt($pw) worked in poppasswd - I didn't need to play with seed basically.

Thank you very much.

[Anon]

Thanks Rich, it does 🙂

Best regards,
-m.