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Date:      Sat, 23 Oct 1999 22:44:07 -0400 (EDT)
From:      "Crist J. Clark" <cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com>
To:        edirol@anime.ca (Edirol)
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: crypt libraries
Message-ID:  <199910240244.WAA39148@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com>
In-Reply-To: <000501bf1db0$50e50860$0300a8c0@anime.ca> from Edirol at "Oct 23, 1999 07:42:48 pm"

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Edirol wrote,
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> Hi there,
> 
> I was switching my system from using the DES libs to the regular MD5 libs.
> 
> My password file contains both DES and MD5 passwords but I can't seem to
> authenticate.
> 
> Here's a list of my crypt libs:
> 
> lrwxrwxrwx  1 root  wheel       11 Oct 23 18:18 libcrypt.a@ -> libscrypt.a
> lrwxrwxrwx  1 root  wheel       12 Oct 23 18:18 libcrypt.so@ -> libscrypt.so
> lrwxrwxrwx  1 root  wheel       14 Oct 23 18:18 libcrypt.so.2@ ->
> libscrypt.so.2
> lrwxrwxrwx  1 root  wheel       15 Oct  3 16:36 libcrypt_p.a@ ->
> libdescrypt_p.a
> -r--r--r--  1 root  wheel    13018 Sep 16 18:40 libdescrypt.a
> lrwxrwxrwx  1 root  wheel       16 Oct  3 16:36 libdescrypt.so@ ->
> libdescrypt.so.2
> -r--r--r--  1 root  wheel    12965 Sep 16 18:40 libdescrypt.so.2
> -r--r--r--  1 root  wheel    14750 Sep 16 18:40 libdescrypt_p.a
> -r--r--r--  1 root  wheel     6194 Sep 16 18:40 libscrypt.a
> lrwxrwxrwx  1 root  wheel       14 Oct 23 18:18 libscrypt.so@ ->
> libscrypt.so.2
> -r--r--r--  1 root  wheel     7579 Sep 16 18:40 libscrypt.so.2
> 
> One thing I did notice. I don't seem to have libscrypt_p.a but I think I
> could copy that from another system.
> 
> Could someone verify whether if all the links are pointed correctly?

They are pointing correctly if you want to use MD5 only. However, you
can't use DES passwords unless you point them to libdescrypt.so.2.
-- 
Crist J. Clark                           cjclark@home.com


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