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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!news.sprintlink.net!news.indirect.com!wes From: wes@indirect.com (Barnacle Wes) Subject: Re: Bug in libcrypt.a on NetBSD 1.0? Message-ID: <CyrvKo.DJz@indirect.com> Sender: usenet@indirect.com (System Operator) Organization: Internet Direct, indirect.com Date: Sat, 5 Nov 1994 02:14:47 GMT References: <HILDEKCA.94Nov4095109@shorty.eng.umd.edu> X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 15 Kevin Hildebrand (hildekca@eng.umd.edu) wrote: : It seems that crypt() doesn't work correctly with non-alphanumeric : salts. It's not supposed to! From the crypt(3) man page: The first argument to crypt() is normally a user's typed password. The second is a 2-character string chosen from the set [a-zA-Z0-9./]. I believe your example salt contained a '$', which is not in the crypt alphabet. Wes Peters