Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcvax!unido!iaoobelix!woerz
From: woerz@iaoobelix.UUCP (Dieter Woerz)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Re: Crypt() in Elm - This may be a problem!
Keywords: crypt elm international
Message-ID: <196@iaoobelix.UUCP>
Date: 30 Jun 88 02:00:02 GMT
References: <470@altnet.ALTOS.COM> <278@clout.Jhereg.MN.ORG> <407@targon.UUCP> <10298@ncc.Nexus.CA> <370@vector.UUCP>
Reply-To: woerz@iaoobelix.UUCP (Dieter Woerz)
Organization: Fraunhofer Institut fuer Arbeitswirtschaft und Organisation
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In article <370@vector.UUCP> chip@vector.UUCP (Chip Rosenthal) writes:
>There are two issues to this encryption business.  The one being focused
>on is sending encrypted mail between machines.
>
>The other issue is that some systems are not *shipped* with crypt.  SCO
>XENIX for example.  However, it was real easy to get.  One phone call to
>SCO support and I had it within a week.
> ...

I noticed everyone saying that not every host has a crypt command. I
agree totally on that, as our Suns and uVAXes here in Europe don't
have the crypt command.

But nobody mentioned that every UNIX system has a crypt function to
be used for password encryption. And as far as I have noticed, this
seem to work the same on all machines. We have ported password files
from VAXen to Suns and HPs and all users could log in under their
normal passwords.
So you seem to be able to use the crypt feature at least with every
elm in the world, ok not with every mailer in the world. But normally
I use this feature on our local machines to tell others about a
changed password, so that noone can accidently read it.

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Dieter Woerz
Fraunhofer Institut fuer Arbeitswirtschaft und Organisation
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