Date: Thu, 08 Jun 1995 00:46:06 -0700 From: Amancio Hasty <hasty@star-gate.com> To: Christoph Kukulies <kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freefall.cdrom.com (user alias) Subject: Re: xdm (ain't there no-des anymore?) Message-ID: <199506080746.AAA13704@star-gate.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 08 Jun 1995 09:46:35 %2B0200." <199506080746.JAA03092@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de>
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>>> Christoph Kukulies said:
> >
> > As Christoph P. Kukulies wrote:
> > >
> > > There were times when there were xdm-des and xdm-nodes in the XF86 distr
ib.
> > > Has DES code been taken out of xdm or what is the reason for this.
> >
> > I think this is unnecessary since xdm links against the system's
> > default -lcrypt dynamically?
> >
> > Or are you referring to something more than only password encryption?
>
> I don't know :-) That's why I was asking. If it was that simple (linking
> to libcrypt) I wonder why there have been two versions for such a long time
> during the days when shared libs already existed (and that was if I recall
> correctly during XFree2.1).
I had a rude problem with mh's inc getting files from my remote internet
accounts and I ended up linking inc with descrypt.a. Basically, I
recompiled mh with sys-current and my inc failed to work because it was
linked with crypt.a
Amancio
Amancio
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