use libcrypt before libcrypto

Albert Chin openssh-unix-dev at thewrittenword.com
Tue Jun 25 20:45:56 EST 2002


On Tue, Jun 25, 2002 at 09:39:45AM +0300, Pekka Savola wrote:
> 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..

Then you should test for a "broken" crypt and not assume that finding
crypt in $LIBS or "$LIBS -lcrypt" works.

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albert chin (china at thewrittenword.com)



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