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Date:      Wed, 14 Jul 1999 16:17:19 +0100
From:      Adam Nealis <adamn@csl.com>
To:        Anand Buddhdev <arb@anand.org>
Cc:        freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: How to use "traditional crypt"
Message-ID:  <378CA9FF.FC1FF803@csl.com>
References:  <378C7B27.AA43AF2F@csl.com> <19990714171642.B15598@africaonline.co.ke>

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Anand Buddhdev wrote:
> 
> On Wed, Jul 14, 1999 at 12:57:27PM +0100, Adam Nealis wrote:
> 
> You currently have the MD5 encryption library installed,
> libscrypt.a. Therefore the passwords you will see are
> long, and begin with $1$. You need the DES library,
> called libdescrypt.a. You can download and install this
> from any of FreeBSD's international mirrors. Use
> /stand/sysinstall, go to the distributions, and select
> DES.
As it turned out, I already had libdescrypt installed.
However, I had forgotten to take "$1$" out of my salt when
compiling, so even when linking against libdescrypt.a I was
getting long encrypted password <sigh>.

But your reply did prompt me to go through everything agins,
so thanks!

Adam.


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