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To: Paul Walsh <paul@nation-net.com>
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From: "Gary Palmer" <gpalmer@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject: Re: md5 for web passwords 
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Paul Walsh wrote in message ID
<31971D72.6ADF@nation-net.com>:
> Have been trying to compile things like htpasswd and change-passwd for 
> web users and am getting _crypt errors in compile. Is this a DES vs md5 
> problem and is there a fix to use md5 ??

Nope, you just need to add a `-lcrypt' to your compiler command line
to pick up the crypt libraries. Of course, with md5 passwords being
longer than normal DES passwords, you may still have problems...

Gary
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Gary Palmer                                            FreeBSD Core Team Member
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