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 -- Mark Murray Join the anti-SPAM movement: http://www.cauce.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe security" in the body of the message
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