crypt

omestre omestre at freeshell.org
Fri Oct 17 12:43:23 PDT 2003


On Thu, 16 Oct 2003, Peter Pentchev wrote:

> Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2003 14:45:48 +0300
> From: Peter Pentchev <roam at ringlet.net>
> To: omestre <omestre at freeshell.org>
> Cc: freebsd-hackers at freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: crypt
>
> On Thu, Oct 16, 2003 at 11:37:37AM +0000, omestre wrote:
> >
> >  Hello, i need authenticate users in a FreeBSD environment and linux
> > environment. My passwords are stored with FreeBSD crypt format. We wrote
> > a pam module to authenticate the users, but if the module runs in FreeBSD
> > and obvious (crypt bsd)... works. In linux does not. Have a simple way to
> > write a simple "crypt" function to my linux module, that behaves like the
> > FreeBSD libc crypt function? Then i will bypass the two libc crypt
> > *imcompatibilities*...
> >  Sorry by the english.
>
> Linux has a crypt(3) function, too, and it usually works.  You'll need
> to tell us a bit more than 'in linux does not' - what exactly does not
> work?
>
> My first guess would be that you cannot compile or load your module,
> because either the linker or the loader tells you that the 'crypt'
> symbol is undefined.  In that case, try giving the -lcrypt option to
> the linker, to tell it to use the libcrypt library - some Linux
> distributions keep their crypt(3) in a separate library.
>
> G'luck,
> Peter
>
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 Thanks, it is working fine. The linux crypt function is working like
FreeBSD... modular and traditional types. :) I've make a mistake.


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