On Wed, 24 Jun 1998, Tatsuo Ishii wrote:
> At 8:42 AM 98.6.24 +0100, Peter Mount wrote:
[snip]
> >
> >I thought there was only one implementation of crypt()?
> >
> >When I added crypt support into the JDBC driver, I used an existing java
> >implementation as a baseline.
> >
> >Now this works for postgres running on Linux() (& java running on Linux &
> >Win95), but I haven't heared of a problem with it on other Unixes.
>
> Linux's crypt() is fine. Only FreeBSD has that problem (I'm not sure
> about other BSDish boxes, though). Anyway, I will check the JDBC driver with
> crypt authentication enabled next week (sorry, I'm too busy on the
> "real world" work this week:-)
Your'e not the only one at the moment ;-)
> Does the Java crypt class call native crypt lib? or is that written in
> 100% pure Java?
It's 100% pure Java.
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