Date: Fri, 19 Jul 1996 22:00:15 GMT From: James Raynard <fqueries@jraynard.demon.co.uk> To: crs@hamlet.lanl.gov Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: crypt sudo Message-ID: <199607192200.WAA12740@jraynard.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <9607191725.AA07031@hamlet.lanl.gov.lanl.gov> (crs@hamlet.lanl.gov)
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>>>>> crs@hamlet.lanl.gov (Charlie Sorsby) writes: > > Is there a port of sudo to FreeBSD that doesn't use crypt? I don't think it's in the ports collection. > I tried building it on my FreeBSD (2.1) box last night and it > complained about not being able to find crypt which, of course, > is no surprise. Is there a version around anywhere that uses > FreeBSD's alternative to crypt? Does adding '-lcrypt' to the linker command line not work? > What must I do to make FreeBSD compatible with sudo? > > I realize that I must find the DES stuff used in Unix. But > what all is involved? Presumeably, I must get all of that > stuff and install it (where can I find it and how much is > there?). I should think that, if I want sudo to be able to > use the regular user passwords then I must also convert > them from the normal form (MD5?) to DES form. Is this > process documented anywhere? How difficult (and time > consuming) is it? You can find the DES distribution on ftp://ftp.reebsd.org (as you're obviously a US resident, I don't need to repeat the usual lecture about not downloading it from overseas :-) However, I don't see that you need it. > Thanks for any help. I'd sure like to be able to use sudo to do simple > root things like mount and such without actually su-ing to root every > time. I prefer to spend as little time as root as possible. Hope this helps. -- James Raynard, Edinburgh, Scotland james@jraynard.demon.co.uk http://www.freebsd.org/~jraynard/
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