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From: Damien Thorn <damien@digicity.net>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Undefined call to _crypt
Date: Thu, 31 Oct 1996 00:22:15 -0800
Organization: Digital City Communications, Inc.
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To: David Malone <dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie>

David Malone wrote:
> 
> 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.

We're using MD5.  The passwords created by htpasswd begin with the
$1$ MD5 signature, however they are too short.  Sigh.  C programming
skills would be handy right about now...

Damien