Re: FTP and MD5

2001-08-20 Thread Michael Fowler
On Mon, Aug 20, 2001 at 03:34:35AM -0700, John Sands wrote: > My question was, how do I change the Perl code to do the same thing? But > your comments tell me that I really don't understand what's happening or > how the authorization is supposed to work. Thanks. I would suggest finding the Serv-U

Re: FTP and MD5

2001-08-20 Thread John Sands
Thanks for your comments, Michael. I don't know how this works (obviously). Let me back up and explain what I'm doing. I have a web site hosted on a machine at my company and the sysadmins did not want to let me use the Microsoft FTP server because it sent passwords in plaintext, so they installe

Re: FTP and MD5

2001-08-19 Thread Michael Fowler
On Fri, Aug 17, 2001 at 05:11:21PM -0700, John Sands wrote: > The FTP Server has been changed to use MD5 encryption I don't understand how this is relevant. Wven if the FTP server supports hashing passwords using MD5 you should still need to send the password in plaintext over the network. The