On Nov 13, 2008, at 8:08 PM, Dmitri V. Ivanov wrote:

So if the user has password like ":jgf" (meaning "ass" in russian) and passwords are stored into passwd-like file within {PLAIN} scheme what will happen?

===== user:{PLAIN}:jgf:1234:1234:....

Isn't it a reason to implement something like {HEX} and why?

v1.1+ supports {plain.b64} or {plain.hex}.