Date: Sun, 19 Apr 1998 19:42:24 -0700 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: Wes Peters <softweyr@xmission.com> Cc: Penisoara Adrian <ady@warpnet.ro>, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Using MD5 insted of DES for passwd ecnryption Message-ID: <3628.893040144@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 19 Apr 1998 20:37:02 MDT." <353AB4CD.81FEC9DB@xmission.com>
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> What do you do when passwd.conf specifies and encryption format you don't > have installed? Can FreeBSD programs fail gracefull to bind to a shared > library? I've never probed *that* deeply into shared libraries. :^) Sure. Man dlopen(3). Something which just selectively bound to either libm5crypt or libdescrypt or libfoocrypt based on the request would be kind of neat. It might solve problems elsewhere as well in terms of eliminating some of the existing symlink hackfixes.. Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe security" in the body of the message
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