Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> From bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr Tue Jul 21 02:47:59 1998
> Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1998 11:23:35 +0200
> From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr>
> To: "Gerald C. Simmons" <simmons@darykon.cet.com>
> Cc: current-users@NetBSD.ORG
> Subject: Re: crypt in 1.3.2 returning different/bad results vs. 1.2.1
> References: <199807202015.NAA00260@dakkon.darykon.cet.com>
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> In-Reply-To: <199807202015.NAA00260@dakkon.darykon.cet.com>; from Gerald C. Simmons on Mon, Jul 20, 1998 at 01:15:39PM -0700
> 
> On Jul 20, Gerald C. Simmons wrote
> > Why would a call to crypt for password authentication in an application,
> > return matching results in NetBSD 1.2.1, and mismatching results in 1.3.2,
> > even when the app is re-built under 1.3.2.
> > 
> > crypt(pwd)=XQxQcWeBlFZkg doesn't match XQtYIu1Gtv6fY
> >                 ^                           ^
> >                 |                           |
> > returned from crypt for password given      |
> >                                             |
> > returned from crypt for user simmons -------/
> > 
> > Also, XQtYIu1Gtv6fY is what shows for simmons using vipw.
> > 
> > Again, this works under NetBSD-1.2.1
> > 
> 
> Could'nt this be a difference between domestic and exportable versions of
> crypt ? I guess if crypt would really be different between 1.2 and 1.3, there
> would have been big problems with passwd files at upgrade time.
> 
> How long is you passwd ? did you try with a  different passwd ?
> 
> 
> --
> Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI.           Manuel.Bouyer@lip6.fr
> --
> 

I started out with the exportable version of secr.tgz, then updated to the
domestic version of secr. I got the same results.

I have tried different password and changing the password.

Gerry