Re: Unix passwd file

At 04:54 AM 10/4/2002 -0600, Peter Janett wrote: >You can just put the username and password in the MySQL database as normal >text, then build your applications that are reading them to check the >passwords with the UNIX Crypt function. Basically that is what I am trying to do. I just converted a BSDI passwd file to Linux to move the users to a new server. Now I want to move the user accounts to a MySQL table that Postfix, Radius and Apache/PHP can share to authenticate the users. >In other words, just as your passwords are stored in a plain text file, >store them in plain text in the db. Then to confirm them, take the first 2 >characters of the crypted password, use them as the salt to crypt the >password the user entered, and compare the results. If that are the same, >they entered a valid password. So this would validate the user? What about if the user wants to change their password? In PHP can I crypt backwards and still be compatible with the Linux passwd file? I am trying to avoid manually typing in over 5,000 usernames and passwords. -Scott