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Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!comp.vuw.ac.nz!waikato.ac.nz!sjhill
From: sjhill@waikato.ac.nz
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: Need a replacement for *crypt(key,salt)
Message-ID: <1992Jul16.101935.9396@waikato.ac.nz>
Date: 16 Jul 92 10:19:35 +1200
References: <1992Jul15.145425.9377@waikato.ac.nz> <9207151251.AA01257@GRANNY.CS.NYU.EDU>
Organization: University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand
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In article <9207151251.AA01257@GRANNY.CS.NYU.EDU>, m-jk8594@GRANNY.CS.NYU.EDU (James Kyriannis) writes:
> 
> Portable, eh?  Like for running under MS-DOS??  What version of BSD are
> you running that lacks crypt?  Please don't waste bandwidth by requesting
> source code for 'crypt' to allow you hack UNIX passwords at home.
> 
Well, actually, I am trying to compile the multi-player game Dominion-1.06 
under Eunice.  Eunice is a reasonably well thought out Unix emulator for 
VAX/VMS.  I use it to compile Unix source to produce VMS executables, and
most BSD programs compile will little or no trouble. crypt() is about the
most major ommision from it's C library.

Being an emulator, Eunice doesn't use a passwd file for loging in.

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