Date: Sun, 24 Mar 2002 09:25:31 -0500 (EST) From: "W. Campbell" <wcampbel@botbay.net> To: "Crist J. Clark" <cjc@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: lib crypt/descrypt/scrypt Message-ID: <20020324092206.Q37036-100000@botbay.net> In-Reply-To: <20020323182336.E48968@blossom.cjclark.org>
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On Sat, 23 Mar 2002, Crist J. Clark wrote: > On Sat, Mar 23, 2002 at 11:14:47AM -0500, W. Campbell wrote: > > When did a single libcrypt replace the separate libdescrypt and > > libscrypt libraries in -STABLE? > > FreeBSD 4.4-RELEASE i386 Release Notes > . > . > . > libcrypt and libdescrypt have been unified to provide > a configurable password authentication hash library. Both > the md5 and des hash methods are provided unless the des > hash is specifically compiled out. Thanks > > My reason for asking... > > > > I've been having some odd errors[1] when profiling, and finally > > traced it down to a stale libdescrypt.so.2 library remaining in > > /usr/lib. > > > > Is there any harm in removing the descrypt and scrypt libraries, > > Nothing in the FreeBSD system should care. No way to tell if you have > third party software that might care, but it is not likely. ircd can sometimes care, but I recompiled all mine with straight libcrypt. > > and > > can there be something in UPDATING letting others know that these > > libraries changed and may need to be removed? > > This is the first time I've heard of any problems with having the old > ones lying around. This is the first time I had problems and noticed issues with the stale libs. > > [1] > > wcampbel@botbay (Stats): bin/mkpasswd > > /usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.1: /usr/lib/libcrypt.so.2: Undefined symbol > > "_CurrentRuneLocale" > > What is mkpasswd? ircd's wrapper around crypt(), used to generate encrypted passwords for the conf file. profiling ircd and anything else that has a configure script looking for -ldescrypt prior to -lcrypt causes the same error with stale libraries present. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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