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Date:      Thu, 8 Jun 1995 09:46:35 +0200 (MET DST)
From:      Christoph Kukulies <kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de>
To:        joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freefall.cdrom.com (user alias)
Subject:   Re: xdm (ain't there no-des anymore?)
Message-ID:  <199506080746.JAA03092@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de>
In-Reply-To: <199506080658.IAA14415@uriah.heep.sax.de> from "J Wunsch" at Jun 8, 95 08:58:20 am

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> 
> As Christoph P. Kukulies wrote:
> > 
> > There were times when there were xdm-des and xdm-nodes in the XF86 distrib.
> > Has DES code been taken out of xdm or what is the reason for this.
> 
> I think this is unnecessary since xdm links against the system's
> default -lcrypt dynamically?
> 
> Or are you referring to something more than only password encryption?

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).

> 
> -- 
> 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. ;-)
> 

 -Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de
FreeBSD blues.physik.rwth-aachen.de 2.0-BUILT-19950606 FreeBSD 2.0-BUILT-1995
0606 #0: Tue Jun  6 19:13:32 MET DST 1995    kuku@blues.physik.rwth-aachen.de
:/usr/src/sys/compile/BLUESGUS  i386



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