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Re: [Scsh-hackers] crypt issues

To: shivers@cc.gatech.edu
Subject: Re: [Scsh-hackers] crypt issues
From: sperber@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de (Michael Sperber [Mr. Preprocessor])
Date: 12 Feb 2001 17:19:14 +0100
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>>>>> "Olin" == shivers  <shivers@cc.gatech.edu> writes:

Olin>        ; Simply calls the C library function and returns its return value.
Olin>        (crypt key salt)
Olin>    This was not Posix when I did the very first implementation of scsh.
Olin>    Of course, neither were symlinks, and I put those in. How portable is
Olin>    crypt?

Olin> Mike? What do you know?

Very.  Things like kth-krb4 use it as well.

Olin> My linux man page says it conforms to "SVID, X/OPEN, BSD 4.3,"
Olin> so that is pretty solid -- (SVID union BSD) is big, X/OPEN is
Olin> also big. So that's all good.

>>>>> Doesn't FreeBSD complicate matters with the crypt-classic/crypt-MD5
>>>>> split?

It doesn't matter.  You don't want to specify that crypt does DES.
You do want to specify that it's compatible with what user-info
returns.

If you really want a procedure for DES, just include something like
kth-krb4's implementation of it.

-- 
Cheers =8-} Mike
Friede, Völkerverständigung und überhaupt blabla


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