>>>>> "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.
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Cheers =8-} Mike
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