From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jun 8 12:25:52 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id MAA24719 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 8 Jun 1995 12:25:52 -0700 Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id MAA24706 for ; Thu, 8 Jun 1995 12:25:49 -0700 Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de with SMTP (5.67b+/DEC-Ultrix/4.3) id AA05987; Thu, 8 Jun 1995 21:25:44 +0200 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id VAA11798 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Thu, 8 Jun 1995 21:25:43 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.9) id UAA01021 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Thu, 8 Jun 1995 20:19:41 +0200 From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199506081819.UAA01021@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: xdm (ain't there no-des anymore?) To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Date: Thu, 8 Jun 1995 20:19:41 +0200 (MET DST) Reply-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) In-Reply-To: <199506080746.JAA03092@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> from "Christoph Kukulies" at Jun 8, 95 09:46:35 am Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 588 Sender: hackers-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk As Christoph Kukulies wrote: > > I don't know :-) That's why I was asking. If it was that simple (linking > to libcrypt) I wonder why there have been two versions for such a long time > during the days when shared libs already existed (and that was if I recall > correctly during XFree2.1). Since pre-2.0 FreeBSD's didn't always ship with a libcrypt. So there has been a version using libc's password scrambler, and one using lib[des]crypt. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)