MD5 proposal

Ulf Kieber wrote:

> Andrei Robachevsky writes:
> 
>>>At the first character after the first white space (space or tab)
>>>
>>>>following the colon (":") 
>>>>
>>
>>>When submitting an update to the database that needs to be authorised using
>>>this scheme, a "password:" pseudo-attribute must be used to submit a key
>>>(passphrase). Line continuation is not allowed for this attribute, so the
>>>whole key should fit on one line. If the key gets split across multiple
>>>lines this will be treated as syntax error.
>>>
>>
>>The value of the key starts at the first character after the first white 
>>space  following the colon (":").
>>
> 
> If I understand you and Engin's previous comment correctly, this would
> change current behaviour, which is according to Engin's comment
> 
> ``key starts after the first non-white space character after the colon''
> 
> Don't!  This would most probably break people's scripts.
>


Sorry, I wasn't clear. ``Key starts at the first non-white space 
character after the colon''.

That's how it works now.

 


-- 
Andrei