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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au!aggedor.rmit.OZ.AU!otto!davidb From: davidb@otto.bf.rmit.oz.au (David Burren [Athos]) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: [Q:] crypt ? Date: 10 Nov 93 04:32:18 GMT Organization: Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Melbourne, Australia. Lines: 42 Message-ID: <davidb.752905938@otto> References: <2blutc$piu@news.cs.tu-berlin.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: otto.bf.rmit.oz.au In <2blutc$piu@news.cs.tu-berlin.de> centauri@kraftbus.cs.tu-berlin.de (centauri) writes: > It seames to be normal, that there is no crypt-bin within the distribution > oNetBSThis is nothing, one should worry about, but since I would like to let > some other persons use my system at home, I would find it rather nice, to > make at least the root-password unvisible. > Well, but how can I getthat running, without crypt? The system will use shadow passwords anyway, so you are _relatively_ secure even without crypt. > Is there someone, who can tell me, where i can find some bin or src for this > program, and who i must install it, so it will work ? Some time ago I created a non-US version of libcrypt and put it up for ftp on a machine here, but it seems as though that machine's since been reused. If someone can point out an appropriate FTP server (OUTSIDE THE U.S. !) that I can dump it on I'll be glad to pass it on (or I can email if only a few people want it). It's a tar file that unpacks into /usr/src/lib/libcrypt ready to compile (on NetBSD 0.9 and later) and contains documentation on which programs need to be recompiled to use it. It is based around the UFC-crypt routines that are also used in the GNU C library. In fact the only change was a new Makefile. I'll repack it tonight in source and binary packages for NetBSD 0.9 installation, but won't be able to produce an "xdm-des" package for a while. I *should* go back and look at the package in detail again, especially in light of the libdes package recently posted, but in light of my other tasks I may be passing this onto someone else soon. > Christian Schroeder, TU-Berlin, FB13 > InterNet : centauri@cs.tu-berlin.de __ David Burren Systems Manager davidb@melb.cpr.itg.telecom.com.au Network Representation Systems +61-3-6343635 ITG, Telecom Australia