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Subject: Re: Broken Perl Crypt Function?
From: Slash (slashDARKHAVEN.NET)
Date: Wed Sep 27 2000 - 14:49:01 CDT

This fixed the problem -- Thanks!

:> On Mon, Sep 25, 2000 at 06:27:50PM -0400, Slash wrote:
:> > And get no output whatsoever. I have attempted to reinstall
:> perl, still nothing.
:> > Does anyone have any ideas or similar problems with this
:> before? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
:>
:> I don't think that is a perl problem, but a libc one. You should
:> install the
:> descrypt package in des1 else you have only md5 crypt :
:>
:> $ perl -e 'print crypt("123","\$1\$ab") . "\n"'
:> $1$ab$HWpIw100ls9AZkFXfsCTa/
:>
:> Then with descrypt you'll have :
:>
:> perl -e 'print crypt("123","ab") . "\n"'
:> abLEFxdWWYR3c
:>
:> To see if descrypt in installed, look at the /var/adm/packages/
:> directory.
:>
:> Denis Ducamp.
:>