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Date:      Mon, 20 Apr 1998 10:14:25 +0200
From:      Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za>
To:        "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
Cc:        Wes Peters <softweyr@xmission.com>, Penisoara Adrian <ady@warpnet.ro>, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Using MD5 insted of DES for passwd ecnryption 
Message-ID:  <199804200814.KAA09666@greenpeace.grondar.za>

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"Jordan K. Hubbard" wrote:
> > 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..

This will need to work if the binary is statically linked as well. I
am not sure if dlopen is up to te task yet.

M
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