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To: Christoph Kukulies <kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de>
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Subject: Re: xdm (ain't there no-des anymore?) 
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From: Amancio Hasty <hasty@star-gate.com>
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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