[4832] in SIPB bug reports
Re: linux version of xscreensaver
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eric Ding)
Sat Aug 27 10:04:47 1994
To: ghudson@MIT.EDU
Cc: bug-sipb@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of Fri, 26 Aug 1994 18:59:37 -0400.
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Date: Sat, 27 Aug 1994 10:04:30 EDT
From: Eric Ding <ericding@MIT.EDU>
>I've had the same problem. It seems that Linux doesn't treat certain
>salts the same way as other operating systems do. For instance, here
>are the results of crypting "foobar" under two salts under Linux and
>Ultrix:
>
> Salt Linux Ultrix
> fp fpyAfoAVGBL3M fpyAfoAVGBL3M
> t% t%/WY11rJpVX2 t%ayFkX053rKc
>
>If you have a crypted password resource in your .Xresources, try
>re-encrypting it using a salt which is only letters. I did the above
>encryptions using perl:
>
> perl -e 'print crypt("foobar", "fp"), "\n";'
>
So if you use the output of that command, under the encryptedKey resource,
you can use "foobar" as your password? I just want to make sure I'm
understanding you correctly, cuz it didn't seem to work for me...
Thanks,
Eric
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