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Subject: re: ANNEX erpcd pegs in _crypt
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How about one more weird guess?

You are using acp_passwd with DES encrypted passwords.  In /etc/passwd
you are using md5 encrypted passwords and the crypt library in /usr/lib
is the md5 library rather than the libcrypt from the "secure" distribution.
The guess is that the md5 library goes into an infinite loop if you hand
it a DES password (because its too short?).

Regards,

Mark Hittinger
Internet Manager
WinNET Communications, Inc.
bugs@win.net