Date: Thu, 08 Jun 1995 00:46:06 -0700 From: Amancio Hasty <hasty@star-gate.com> To: Christoph Kukulies <kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freefall.cdrom.com (user alias) Subject: Re: xdm (ain't there no-des anymore?) Message-ID: <199506080746.AAA13704@star-gate.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 08 Jun 1995 09:46:35 %2B0200." <199506080746.JAA03092@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de>
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>>> Christoph Kukulies said: > > > > As Christoph P. Kukulies wrote: > > > > > > There were times when there were xdm-des and xdm-nodes in the XF86 distr ib. > > > 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). I had a rude problem with mh's inc getting files from my remote internet accounts and I ended up linking inc with descrypt.a. Basically, I recompiled mh with sys-current and my inc failed to work because it was linked with crypt.a Amancio Amancio
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