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   Message 9,907 of 11,842   
   Andy Gorman to All   
   Re: Password Salt   
   29 Apr 21 21:41:40   
   
   From: nospam.Andy.Gorman@p52.f426.n229.z1.fidonet.org   
      
   On 29 Apr 2021, g00r00 said the following...   
    g0> I go back and forth as to whether or not I should document how to handle   
    g0> the hashes directly for something like what you want to do.  But I would   
    g0> certainly hate for that to be the cause for someone to enable cleartext   
    g0> passwords (which is a feature I have considered removing as well).   
      
   I don't blame you because someone can probably do some damage to a system.  I   
   turned on clear/case sensitive passwords temporarily to make sure I was reading   
   the file right.  Again, not the best practice in anyway.  I think removing it   
   is a good idea, personally.   
      
    g0> Would the STDIO or REST API work for you as an alternative or is what   
    g0> you are doing designed to work directly with data files only?   
    g0>   
      
   I'm going to try to capture the STDIO and see if I can get that to work.  If   
   there was a REST API, then that would be even better.  Thanks for all your   
   support!   
      
   Andy, aka The Leprechaun   
      
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