[Freeciv-Dev] Re: MD5 password authentication and so on.

[Erik Sigra <sigra@xxxxxxx>]

tisdagen den 21 augusti 2001 23:32 skrev Auth Gábor:
> Hi!
>
> > Now there are two ways (from what i see) to implement this password
> > authentication thing. The easy way and the not so easy way.
>
>   I vote the easy way, passwords stored with or without MD5 (or DES)
> hash. Hmm... OK, this is only works with UNIX systems, but public(meta)
> civserver usually run in UNIX platform. This password authentication is
> meanigless in private civservers... isn't?

If nothing else, MD5 hashing protects the password itself, so use it.