[tpop3d-discuss] auth_mysql problem

Chris Lightfoot chris at ex-parrot.com
Sun, 7 Sep 2003 16:48:33 +0100


On Sun, Sep 07, 2003 at 05:33:16PM +0200, Jens Liebchen (ppp-design) wrote:
> Jakob Hirsch wrote:
> > Could you show one of your db entries?
> 
> The select used by tpop3d gives the following (cleartext pass is abcabc):
> 
> +-------------------------------------------+-------------------------+
> | CONCAT('/path/', 'username') | CONCAT('{crypt}', pass) | uid  | bsd |
> +-------------------------------------------+-------------------------+
> | /path/username               | {crypt}2WGggMelZVffM    | 1234 | bsd |
> +-------------------------------------------+-------------------------+
> 
> At the moment I have no time for further investigations and everything
> seems to work correctly here..

That's UNIX crypt, not MySQL crypt.

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