Date: Fri, 2 Jun 1995 23:25:48 -0700 (PDT) From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@ref.tfs.com> To: ywliu@psi.wsl.sinica.edu.tw (Yen-Wei Liu) Cc: peter@bonkers.taronga.com, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: UNIX crypt() source - the problem solved (fwd) Message-ID: <199506030625.XAA12031@ref.tfs.com> In-Reply-To: <199506031432.OAA18384@psi.wsl.sinica.edu.tw> from "Yen-Wei Liu" at Jun 3, 95 02:31:59 pm
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> There is another question here : I am compiling PINE/IMAPD on FreeBSD 2.0. > IMAPD requires crypt(). Unfortunately there is only MD5 on my systems. > Now I wonder if there is a wrapper function named crypt() which take > advantage of MD5 rather than DES ? If no, I either write my own or > apply secdist. The MD5 implementation in FreeBSD is compatible with the DES implementation in all but one aspect: the crypted password string is longer. To get the crypt() function, you need to link with -lcrypt. -- Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@login.dknet.dk> -- TRW Financial Systems, Inc. 'All relevant people are pertinent' && 'All rude people are impertinent' => 'no rude people are relevant'
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