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From: Christoph Kukulies <kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de>
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Subject: Re: How to tell if a system has DES installed
In-Reply-To: <33410091.41C67EA6@dorotech.fr> from Patrice BLEUZE at "Apr 1, 97 12:33:21 pm"
To: fritz!pbl@dorotech.fr (Patrice BLEUZE)
Date: Tue, 1 Apr 1997 15:17:11 +0200 (MET DST)
Cc: stanb@netcom.com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.com
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> Stan Brown wrote:
> > 
> >         I am wondering how to tell if a given FreeBSD has DES installed or
> >         not.
> > 
> >         Here is the situation. U have a FreeBSD box that I *think* I
> >         specified DES libs on. But now I am trying to get NIS to work with
> >         it. I can ypcat the passwd file from another machine OK. But if I
> >         change my login to +stan, instead o stan. I can't get longed in. It seems
> >         to me that one possibility is differing encryptions.
> > 
> >         What else should I check?
> > 
> >         Thanks.
> > 
> > --
> > Stan Brown     stanb@netcom.com                                    404-996-6955
> > Factory Automation Systems
> > Atlanta Ga.
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> > (c) 1997 Stan Brown.  Redistribution via the Microsoft Network is prohibited.
> 
> First, sorry for my incorrect english !
> 
> Check the /usr/lib and /usr/include directories. If DES is installed on
> your system, the libdescrypt.a, libdescrypt_p.a, libdescrypt.so.2.0
> libraries and des.h header file must be installed.

To be more precise, libcrypt.so.x.y must be a link to libdescrypt.so.x.y
By default it's linked to libscrypt.so.x.y.


> 
> You can also try : man des_crypt to see if the DES man pages are
> installed.
> 
> Finally, you can try the bdes binary program.
> 
> pbl
> 

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Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de