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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
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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

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