use libcrypt before libcrypto

Pekka Savola pekkas at netcore.fi
Tue Jun 25 16:39:45 EST 2002


On Tue, 25 Jun 2002 itojun at iijlab.net wrote:
> >> 	either way is fine for me, as long as crypt() supplied by the
> >> 	native system is preferred than openssl crypt().  thanks.
> >Umm.. could this (possibly) break some of those ancient flawors of Unix
> >where native crypt is really crappy and OpenSSL crypt is the only real way
> >to go?
> 
> 	such as?  such platform should have been in trouble anyways...

I don't know, but looking at how broken && old systems OpenSSH supports, I
wouldn't be surprised.

All I'm saying this might not be a "trivial" change and may need some 
testing..

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