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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msunews!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!xlink.net!blackbush.xlink.net!scsing.switch.ch!news.dfn.de!server2.rz.uni-leipzig.de!news.th-zwickau.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!uriah.heep!not-for-mail From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Bad crypt? Date: 6 Oct 1995 23:32:26 +0100 Organization: Private FreeBSD site, Dresden. Lines: 13 Message-ID: <454apq$eas@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <kchan-0110951556250001@adagio.kcc.hawaii.edu> <44sahi$q0@maui.cc.odu.edu> <452f20$627@enigma.uniserve.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: uriah.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Tom Samplonius <tom@uniserve.com> wrote: >>Once you got crypt, won't you have to recompile your system... > No, you don't need to re-compile your system. All the system binaries are linked >against the shared version of the crypt lib, and will happily use the MD5 (stock), or DES >version (securedist). With the notworthy exception of /sbin/init and /bin/[r]ed. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)