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On Mon, Apr 15, 2002 at 03:46:30AM -0400, Sean Davis wrote:
> I think it should "just work" for the pkgsrc version also - at least, I've
> used programs on non-md5-crypt machines, and moved them over to my NetBSD
> machine which uses md5, and crypt() seems to recognize what type of passw=
ord
> hashing was used and act accordingly. (ie a database that had DES passwor=
ds
> still works fine, and I can put MD5 passwords in it and it still works)

Um, of course it does, because crypt() doesn't live in each binary,
it lives in a shared object (libcrypt.so).

(Build yourself a statically-linked version of sshd that doesn't
know about md5 and you will shoot yourself in the foot.)

That's the whole point of the argument between login.conf and
passwd.conf; it's not login (or programs that do logging in) that
reads passwd.conf, it's functions in a shared library which a
variety of software (not just daemons, su too, probably sudo) read.

--=20
gabriel rosenkoetter
gr@eclipsed.net

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