Date: Thu, 8 Jun 1995 20:19:41 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Subject: Re: xdm (ain't there no-des anymore?) Message-ID: <199506081819.UAA01021@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199506080746.JAA03092@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> from "Christoph Kukulies" at Jun 8, 95 09:46:35 am
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As Christoph Kukulies wrote: > > I don't know :-) That's why I was asking. If it was that simple (linking > to libcrypt) I wonder why there have been two versions for such a long time > during the days when shared libs already existed (and that was if I recall > correctly during XFree2.1). Since pre-2.0 FreeBSD's didn't always ship with a libcrypt. So there has been a version using libc's password scrambler, and one using lib[des]crypt. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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