Bruce Momjian writes:
> > Bruce Momjian writes:
> >
> > > Anyway, the patch is small so I will apply it. There is no telling what
> > > OS's expect a character string there.
> >
> > There's a pretty good telling: Nobody ever reported a problem related to
> > this.
>
> We have had crypts that di
> Bruce Momjian writes:
>
> > Anyway, the patch is small so I will apply it. There is no telling what
> > OS's expect a character string there.
>
> There's a pretty good telling: Nobody ever reported a problem related to
> this.
We have had crypts that didn't work across platforms.
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Bru
Bruce Momjian writes:
> Anyway, the patch is small so I will apply it. There is no telling what
> OS's expect a character string there.
There's a pretty good telling: Nobody ever reported a problem related to
this.
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Peter Eisentraut [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://funkturm.homeip.net/~peter
> > and conn.salt is char[2]. Isn't this a problem?
>
> I don't think it is. Note that it refers to the salt as a "character
> array", not a string. Also, since '_' isn't in the allowed encoding
> set, it can tell the difference between a 9-byte salt and a 2-byte
> salt without a terminating N
Bruce Momjian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > > and conn.salt is char[2]. Isn't this a problem?
> >
> > I don't think it is. Note that it refers to the salt as a "character
> > array", not a string. Also, since '_' isn't in the allowed encoding
> > set, it can tell the difference between a 9-
> Bruce Momjian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > It seems to say that the salt passed to crypt should be null-terminated,
>
> Hmm. The HPUX man page for crypt() just says that
> salt is a two-character string chosen from the set [a-zA-Z0-9./]
> which I think is the traditional spec. Looks
Bruce Momjian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Look at this from the BSD/OS crypt() manual page:
>
> The crypt function performs password encryption. It is derived from the
> NBS Data Encryption Standard. Additional code has been added to deter
> key search attempts. The first arg
Bruce Momjian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> It seems to say that the salt passed to crypt should be null-terminated,
Hmm. The HPUX man page for crypt() just says that
salt is a two-character string chosen from the set [a-zA-Z0-9./]
which I think is the traditional spec. Looks like BSD h
