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From: dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie (David Malone)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Undefined call to _crypt
Date: 28 Oct 1996 18:12:36 -0000
Organization: Dept. of Maths, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland.
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Damien Thorn <damien@digicity.net> writes:

>Hello -

>Been having a battle with getting the "htpasswd" program that
>accompanies the Apache and other httpds to compile and work
>properly.

Are you using MD5 or DES ? htpasswd may make the assumption that
the output from crypt will be a certain (short) length, which might
not be true with MD5.

	David.