Re: Basic Authentication

On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 2:34 PM, tedd <tedd.sperling@gmail.com> wrote: >> What it is depends on what encryption routines you have installed. >> >> The algorithm to authenticate detects the algorithm based on the hash. >> >> 32-char : MD5 >> $1$ : SHA-1 >> $2$ : SHA-2 >> etc. >> (Apologies if I got my tokens/algorithms wrong) >> >> If you just toss MD5s in there, it should work, I think, if you have MD5 >> installed and available. >> >> It picks the best available when it adds a new entry. >> >> So an old file might look like: >> >> #your box came with MD5 installed >> joe:MD5 >> alice:MD5 >> #you installed SHA-2 >> bob:SHA-2 >> lee:SHA-2 >> >> At least, that's been my experience so far... > > > The problem I have is that the sever I'm working on is not mine, thus no way > for me to get shell access. > > I assumed that the server used a different encoding than MD5 because the > string it generates is very short, such as: > > jYYjNLrifgUxk > > Clearly this is not MD5 encoding and thus the reason for my original post. > > I do have before and after examples I could use to identify what algorithm > was used. I just need to know what algorithms could have been used and (if > it's not too much to ask) working example of each. > > Cheers, > > tedd > So can you not just use PHP's crypt() function? It doesn't require shell access, and like I said - it worked fine for me the last time I used basic auth. Andrew