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From: doug@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU (Douglas W O'neal)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms,comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re: FTP server, VMS 5.4 (new password hashing)
Message-ID: <7161@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU>
Date: 14 Dec 90 15:22:29 GMT
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References: <566@phcoms.seri.philips.nl->
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In article <566@phcoms.seri.philips.nl-> roes@phcoms.seri.philips.nl (Aloys Roes) writes:
->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?
->
A post came out on the cmutek mailing list on 3-dec-1990 that a patched
ftp is available from 128.2.232.20 and it will be included in future
distributions of cmutek tcp/ip

Doug

-- 
Doug O'Neal, Distributed Systems Programmer, Johns Hopkins University
doug@jhuvms.bitnet, doug@jhuvms.hcf.jhu.edu, mimsy!aplcen!jhunix!doug 
Like many of the features of UNIX, UUCP appears theoretically 
unworkable... - DEC Professional, April 1990