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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: <1992Jul16.192112.9419@waikato.ac.nz> Date: 16 Jul 92 19:21:12 +1200 References: <1992Jul15.145425.9377@waikato.ac.nz> <1992Jul16.022231.7878@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu> Organization: University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand Lines: 18 In article <1992Jul16.022231.7878@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu>, mrr@scss3.cl.msu.edu (Mark Riordan) writes: > sjhill@waikato.ac.nz writes: > : On a version of BSD Unix that I am using, the C Library functions 'crypt' and > : '_crypt' are missing. Would someone be able to post a short and simple and > : portable (!) bit of code to replace these missing functions? > > In your neck of the woods, laurel.ocs.mq.edu.au has "libdes", > which I believe is the same code as Eric Young posted to > comp.sources.misc, which is widely available on FTP sites. > I believe this provides a drop-in replacement for "crypt". Many thanks to those who posted or mailed me replies, especially Pete French. Sorry I can't reply by mail, but I'm not authorised to send external-email. (They only let me receive email because it would cost too much to bounce it back again!) Well, the problem is solved, and I think Dominion is working ok... (see previous posting) --