On Wed, 10 Dec 1997, Chris Jacobson wrote:
>Crypt for MUDs is IMHO kinda useless... sure it keeps people in the
>account out of other players files, but if you have ASCII pfiles, it
>doesnt matter anyways, the hacker could still mess it up - the hacker
>would also have the password, sure, but if the user is smart enough they
>wouldn't use the same password. I have my passwords non-crypted for
>several reasons - we have caught bad users with it.
less lib/etc/players
^Lthe Implementor^@^^H^@^@^@^@<EC>^A^@^@|<F3><FF><BF><81><FE>^F@
^Z^M@$t^L@<8C>
<F3><FF><BF>\<D0>^L@<B0><F3><FF><BF><A4><E9@^A^@<AD><FB>^\<AB> ^\<AB>
^\<AB> ^\<AB> +<AB>^A^@"<AB>^A^@^S#a4|
^@^@<88><A4>AzR0pQt.bT^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^A^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^
^^^^^^^^^^
Real tough to read passwords in binary too. :)
>Crypt is pretty useless (and non-portable).
Snipped too much, but anyway, it does have its uses.
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