Subject: Re: Macs in chooser using TCP
From: Aaron Levitt (alevitt@navis.com)
Date: Mon Aug 28 2000 - 12:31:08 EDT
How do you get OS8+ to use DHX?? The macs I have tried here, it only seems to work with OS9. I have tried OS8.1, OS8.5 and OS8.6 and they only seem to get clear text password authentication. Is there something that needs to be added to the macs??
-Aaron
At 9:00 AM -0700 8/28/2000, andrew morgan is rumored to have said:
>
> You are using DHX encrypted passwords, which you get by setting the
> CRYPTODIR variable in the top-level Makefile. Basically, DHX encrypts
> your password using SSL routines before sending it across the network. I
> don't know why anybody would use rand2num passwords instead. I don't want
> my cleartext password sitting in a file on the network! DHX support is
> already included in OS9 and all the versions of OS8 I have tried.
>
> Andy
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