[95149] in RedHat Linux List
Re: encrypted file trouble
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rick Philbrick)
Thu Oct 15 13:51:39 1998
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1998 10:51:12 -0700 (PDT)
From: Rick Philbrick <philbrik@ncal.verio.com>
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In-Reply-To: <199810151650.MAA15715@fourier.capital.edu.capital.edu>
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I appreciate the offer but its private material. I do see the crypt
library functions in the man pages....Also the decryptdir cryptdir
programs are in /usr/bin/. I will try the SUNW station we have here.
thanks for the hint.
RICK-
On Thu, 15 Oct 1998, Dave Reed wrote:
>
> >
> > I need to uzip an encrypted file for which i've been given the password
> > to. I thought the crypt command plus the password would do it but it
> > doesn't. No complaints about the password being wrong. Nothing except the
> > obvious...BASH: CRYPT: COMMAND NOT FOUND
> >
> > Are there any decryption utilities in RH's release? I poked around the man
> > pages, came up with CRYPT, and the usage. No success.
> >
> > The file goes something like ... filename-5.tar.crypt
> >
> > Thanks to anyone who can offer a hint.
> > RIck
>
> When searching the man pages, did you find the crypt program or a
> crypt library? Red Hat's linux distribution (at least 4.2 which is
> what I'm still using) appears to include the crypt library, but not
> the crypt program that is on other Unices (at least Solaris). I
> suspect you can probably find the source code for it on the web, but I
> haven't tried.
>
> If you can't find anything, and the information isn't that
> "sensitive", we have Sun Solaris machines at work so I could decrypt
> it for you if you gave me the file and password.
>
> Dave
> dreed@capital.edu
>
>
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