[Twisted-Python] Plain text password with PB authentication?

Itamar Shtull-Trauring itamar at itamarst.org
Sat Aug 30 01:22:04 MDT 2003


On Fri, 29 Aug 2003 16:02:38 -0600
"Boersma, Matt" <Matt.Boersma at arraybiopharma.com> wrote:

> Here's my problem.  I have a PB client that calls login against the
> server, with a UsernamePassword object as credentials.  PB sets up for
> me nice default implementations of the authentication mechanisms, but
> refuses to send the actual password to the server, only a doubly
> MD5-hashed version of same.

Pluggable credential types for PB logins, which will eventually be
supported, would allow this. Until then do what Jean-Paul said, make
your own custom login method.




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