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. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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