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minor apache htpasswd problem Sep 25 2003 08:25PM
Andreas Steinmetz (ast domdv de)
This is valid for the htpasswd utility of at least apache 1.3.27 and 1.3.28:

The salt used for password generation solely depends on the current
system time:

(void) srand((int) time((time_t *) NULL));
ap_to64(&salt[0], rand(), 8);

This causes all passwords generated within the same second to hav...

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