[mod_python] Restricted area - how to protect passwords ?

Sean Davis sdavis2 at mail.nih.gov
Tue Oct 10 02:43:12 EDT 2006


On Tuesday 10 October 2006 08:26, durumdara wrote:
> Hi !
>
> Apache is not supports the MD5 or other hash based passwords ?
> I think that I see this in an OReilly's apache book. But possible I know
> it wrong...

You'll need to either encrypt the password before it is sent using javascript 
or use Digest authentication.  The latter is supported by apache.  The former 
is something that you would need to write (or use someone else's code).

Sean


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