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Posted to users@httpd.apache.org by Brian Dessent <br...@dessent.net> on 2003/12/25 09:42:06 UTC
Re: [users@httpd] The simplest method to convert from AuthType Basic to
AuthType Digest
"Victor B. Gonzalez" wrote:
> I am trying to switch AuthType Basic to AuthType Digest but I have
> many users and passwords. What is the simplest method of converting
> them across in a seamless manner?
>
> Thank you for any information and links on this!
I could very well be wrong here, but I don't think it's possible, or at
least not very easy. You might be able to do it by running a 'password
cracker' against your crypted passwords to extract the plaintext, which
you would then run though md5. But this will almost certainly take a
very long time (weeks, months, years, ???) with many passwords,
depending of course on how well the passwords were chosen.
Brian
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Re[2]: [users@httpd] The simplest method to convert from AuthType Basic to AuthType Digest
Posted by "Victor B. Gonzalez" <ap...@vbgunz.com>.
Hello Brian,
>> I am trying to switch AuthType Basic to AuthType Digest but I have
>> many users and passwords. What is the simplest method of converting
>> them across in a seamless manner?
BD> You might be able to do it by running a 'password cracker' against
BD> your crypted passwords to extract the plaintext, which you would
BD> then run though md5. But this will almost certainly take a very
BD> long time (weeks, months, years, ???) with many passwords,
BD> depending of course on how well the passwords were chosen.
Yeah I feared the response :) Thanks Brian :)
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Victor B. Gonzalez
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