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From: terry@cs.weber.edu (A Wizard of Earth C)
Subject: Re: what is a good password program?
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In article <1992Sep22.000234.1858@seq.uncwil.edu> faldor@seq.uncwil.edu (Sherman Brown) writes:
[ .. I need crypt .. ]
>BTW I do not have the source code 
>for BSD so I prefer something that doesn't use it to compile, 
>other than the headers.  Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Sorry: no shared libraries = recompile everything using password file I/O.
You will have to grab at least some sources (login, passwd, xterm, xdm, etc.).

You can get crypt libraries from outside the U.S., according to archie (are
there import restrictions, too?).


					Terry Lambert
					terry_lambert@gateway.novell.com
					terry@icarus.weber.edu
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