From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 15 13:24:09 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id NAA24301 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 15 Feb 1996 13:24:09 -0800 (PST) Received: from tanelorn.netural.com (root@tanelorn.NETural.com [206.54.248.5]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id NAA24262 for ; Thu, 15 Feb 1996 13:24:03 -0800 (PST) Received: (from thekind@localhost) by tanelorn.netural.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) id PAA01205; Thu, 15 Feb 1996 15:22:53 -0600 Date: Thu, 15 Feb 1996 15:22:49 -0600 (CST) From: "Adam W. Dace" To: Maintenance user cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ircd & passwords In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 17 Jan 1996, Maintenance user wrote: > > Hi, > > I have installed IRC 2.8.21 from the port collection. It works fine but it > does not accept encrypted passwords. I copied its password from > master.passwd then used /oper but irc returned the message "password is > incorrect". ircd is linked with -lcrypt option. > I would appreciate any help very much!! The reason it bombs is because FreeBSD's crypt(), while nice, is not completely compatible as a plugin for good ol' DES crypt(). I have ircd up and running successfully, and am in fact starting a FreeBSD-based IRC network, just for kicks. Feel free to drop by ftp.NETural.com:/pub/FreeBSD/ircd, and pick up my ircd binaries, descrypt libs, et al. Basically the solution is to compiled ircd/mkpasswd with -ldescrypt. I also hacked the ircd sources to make some values a bit more sane... | Adam W. Dace | NETural Communications, Inc. | | Webmaster | Paying too much for your Net access? | | http://www.NETural.com/ | NETural Voice: (312) 819-2231 |