From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 14 8:30:52 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mailhost.criterion.canon.co.uk (mailhost.criterion.canon.co.uk [194.223.249.254]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6924214CBA for ; Wed, 14 Jul 1999 08:30:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from adamn@csl.com) Received: from csl.com (hermes.criterion.canon.co.uk [194.223.249.13]) by mailhost.criterion.canon.co.uk (8.8.8/8.7.3) with ESMTP id QAA19578; Wed, 14 Jul 1999 16:21:13 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: <378CA9FF.FC1FF803@csl.com> Date: Wed, 14 Jul 1999 16:17:19 +0100 From: Adam Nealis Organization: Criterion Software, Ltd. X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.6 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.0.34 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Anand Buddhdev Cc: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: How to use "traditional crypt" References: <378C7B27.AA43AF2F@csl.com> <19990714171642.B15598@africaonline.co.ke> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 . 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