[sork] RE: passwd (release 2.2) - Solaris, crypt(), MD5, DES, vpopmail

[Dennis Kisilyov]

My findings took me to vpopmail.c in vpopmail.

   423  #ifdef MD5_PASSWORDS
   424    salt[0] = '$';
   425    salt[1] = '1';
   426    salt[2] = '$';
   427    salt[3] = randltr();
   428    salt[4] = randltr();
   429    salt[5] = randltr();
   430    salt[6] = randltr();
   431    salt[7] = randltr();
   432    salt[8] = 0;
   433  #else
   434    salt[0] = randltr();
   435    salt[1] = randltr();
   436    salt[2] = 0;
   437  #endif

This define behavior is controlled by a configure directive 
--enable-md5-passwords=n \

Turning off this directive allowed me to create non $1$ salts with
vpopmail

This made php's crypt work properly whence not confused by $1 as a salt
in the pw_passwd field. 

Now all that's left are minor alterations to get rid of '{crypt}' in the
password field after changing.
-DK