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From: roes@phcoms.seri.philips.nl (Aloys Roes)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms,comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: FTP server, VMS 5.4 (new password hashing)
Message-ID: <566@phcoms.seri.philips.nl>
Date: 13 Dec 90 12:03:20 GMT
Organization: Philips Components - SERI, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
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We recently received VMS 5.4 and found that it introduced a new password
hashing algorithm. For normal use this is no problem however, a number of
FTP servers do their own checking of passwords and use the older hashing
algorithm for that. So whenever a user changes his password under VMS 5.4
he/she can no longer FTP into that account. We have this problem with the 
following TCP/IP implementations: FNS version 3.3.7, Novell LAN-service
version 3.5 (EXCELAN) and CMU 6.5. The other TCP/IP implementations that 
are used in our company (UCX from DEC and WIN/TCP from Wollongong)
have solved the problem by using LOGINOUT.EXE for password checking.

Does anyone know if there are solutions for the above three TCP/IP
implementations and how we can get hold of them?

Thanks,

Aloys Roes, Philips Components, Building BC-136, |  Tel. : + 31 40 72 30 62
P.O.Box 218, 5600 MD Eindhoven, The Netherlands  |  Email: roes@seri.philips.nl

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     regards,

Aloys Roes, Philips Components, Building BC-136, |  Tel. : + 31 40 72 30 62
P.O.Box 218, 5600 MD Eindhoven, The Netherlands  |  Email: roes@seri.philips.nl