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Date:      Tue, 12 Aug 1997 18:58:03 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        "Jonathan A. Zdziarski" <jonz@netrail.net>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Encryption Upgrade
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.970812185703.252O-100000@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.970811164346.29048A-100000@netrail.net>

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On Mon, 11 Aug 1997, Jonathan A. Zdziarski wrote:

> Doing a search in /usr for crypt, I've found
> 
> /usr/lib/libcrypt.a
> /usr/lib/libcrypt.so.2.0
> /usr/lib/libscrypt.a
> /usr/lib/libscrypt.so.2.0
> /usr/lib/libcrypt_p.a
> /usr/lib/libscrypt_p.a
> /usr/local/bin/pgpencrypt
> /usr/share/man/man3/crypt.3.gz
> /usr/share/man/man3/encrypt.3.gz
> /usr/share/man/man3/skey_crypt.3.gz
> /usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/gzip/crypt.c
> /usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/gzip/crypt.h
> /usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/perl/perl/crypt.c
> 
> If I replace these files with copies of the ones from the server using the
> encryption method I want, and rebuild the kernel, will this work, or are
> there other files that need to be copied, or is it impossible to do it by
> just copying files and rebuilding?

Recopying them and rebuilding the affected binaries should work.  The
kernel has no knowledge of encryption though so you can skip that step.

I assume you want to migrate from MD5 to DES?

> on the server who's encryption I want to upgrade I see a lot of files in
> /usr/src/secure/lib as well, but I dont see these on the server who's
> encryption I want.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
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