From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jul 19 18:00:21 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id SAA00509 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 19 Jul 1996 18:00:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from relay-5.mail.demon.net (relay-5.mail.demon.net [158.152.1.48]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id SAA00504 for ; Fri, 19 Jul 1996 18:00:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from post.demon.co.uk by relay-5.mail.demon.net id av28328; 20 Jul 96 0:31 +0100 Received: from jraynard.demon.co.uk ([158.152.42.77]) by relay-3.mail.demon.net id aa26454; 19 Jul 96 23:36 +0100 Received: (from fqueries@localhost) by jraynard.demon.co.uk (8.6.12/8.6.12) id WAA12740; Fri, 19 Jul 1996 22:00:15 GMT Date: Fri, 19 Jul 1996 22:00:15 GMT Message-Id: <199607192200.WAA12740@jraynard.demon.co.uk> From: James Raynard To: crs@hamlet.lanl.gov CC: questions@freebsd.org In-reply-to: <9607191725.AA07031@hamlet.lanl.gov.lanl.gov> (crs@hamlet.lanl.gov) Subject: Re: crypt sudo Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >>>>> 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/