On Tue, 30 Apr 2013 13:06:50 -0400, Jeff Trawick <trawick@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> > I cannot understand why they left that out of Apache when compiling >> > for Windows.... >> >> I'm sure there is a good reason. I have yet to see ASF do anything >> without one. >> > >no comment ;) > > >> >> Maybe someone else can articulate the rationale. >> > >* Windows doesn't come with a crypt()-equivalent API. (Or didn't for a >long time??????) >* APR-Util doesn't support any third-party libraries for >crypt()-equivalence on Windows. >* Consumers of APR-Util like htpasswd don't think crypt()-equivalent is >available on Windows and would need to use some different construct to >detect availability of crypt()-equivalent passwords in APR-Util. >* Somehow we made it this long without [m]any people caring. > >The work could be done, of course... Whether crypt()-ed passwords are >important enough now to justify the effort from a volunteer as well as the >work of the related projects to review and test the code is unclear... > The Pascal code (I program PC software in Delphi) I use to create/decode CRYPT:ed hashes is about 600 lines including constant definitions... -- Bo Berglund Developer in Sweden --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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