[sork] Re: [dev] passwd - crypt-md5

[amith at xalan.com]

| > I also foudn that the crypt password bit prepends a {crypt} on it.  I
| > don't know why it does that.
|
| That one confused me as well.  I took it off locally and everything is
| honkey-dory.  Eric (or someone else who knows about this), what was the
| {crypt} for?

Some backends (like LDAP) support more than one type of encryption/hashing
method.  So prepending the string with {crypt} or {MD5} lets the backend know
which type to use.  I suppose it should be changed so that this is configurable
in the config file

Amith