At 00:21 4-4-2002, Gupta, Sanjay wrote:
>My answer :- As I recall the crypt command in all Unix works the same way
You actually worked with "all Unix"? Wow! That's impressive!
>e.g. if I want to encrypt a file, I would use
>crypt crypt_password < file_you_want_to_encrypt > encrypted_file
>
>and to decrypt file, you would issue command
>crypt crypt_password encrypted_file
>
>but the same thing does not work in cygwin. The purpose of crypt command in
>cygwin is different than the purpose of crypt command in unix. I have no
>idea why it is different but it is.
On my copy of RedHat 7.1, crypt behaves as follows:
$ crypt
bash: crypt: command not found
Please update Cygwin ASAP so that it behaves the same!!!
- Michael ;-)
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