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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!howland.erols.net!news.sprintlink.net!news-peer.sprintlink.net!news.mathworks.com!news.sgi.com!news1.best.com!newsfeed1.aimnet.com!news.netserv.com!pagesat.net!news.digicity.net!usenet From: Damien Thorn <damien@digicity.net> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Undefined call to _crypt Date: Thu, 31 Oct 1996 00:22:15 -0800 Organization: Digital City Communications, Inc. Lines: 21 Message-ID: <327861B7.27D6@digicity.net> References: <32749B2E.7713@digicity.net> <552t2k$gtf@synge.maths.tcd.ie> NNTP-Posting-Host: sidewinder.digicity.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.01 (Win16; I) To: David Malone <dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie> David Malone wrote: > > Damien Thorn <damien@digicity.net> writes: > > >Hello - > > >Been having a battle with getting the "htpasswd" program that > >accompanies the Apache and other httpds to compile and work > >properly. > > Are you using MD5 or DES ? htpasswd may make the assumption that > the output from crypt will be a certain (short) length, which might > not be true with MD5. > > David. We're using MD5. The passwords created by htpasswd begin with the $1$ MD5 signature, however they are too short. Sigh. C programming skills would be handy right about now... Damien