Subject: Re: libcrypto vs. libcrypt
To: None <itojun@iijlab.net>
From: Bill Studenmund <wrstuden@netbsd.org>
List: tech-security
Date: 03/13/2003 10:34:28
On Wed, 12 Mar 2003 itojun@iijlab.net wrote:
> >>So, I ran into an irritating problem with xscreensaver-gnome yesterday.
> >>It appears that, because I have Kerberos enabled, and therefore it's
> >>linked with libcrypto, that the version of crypt(3) in libcrypto is
> >>overriding the one in libcrypt, and therefore my Blowfish password
> >>entries do not work.
> > no objection here (glad you mentioned), but it will need a shlib major
> > bump...
>
> or we could just compile source under lib/libcrypt into libcrypto.
> does it make sense to you?
Why not just do that?
Take care,
Bill