Hi,
> > > > "The crypt() function is unimplemented due to excessive paranoia. at
> > > > /var/neomail//checklogin.pl line 18."
> > > remove crypt() call from script.
> > > Or use so called non-US distributions.
> Unfortunately (for you - for me fortunately) I'm living in Europe and have
> european distro... seems SuSE has no problems at all...
Hmm.. The silly thing is, it worked fine with the distro I've got. I've had it for 2
years. It wasn't until I installed 2.2.18, gcc 2.95.3 and perl-5.6.1 that the problem
arose. If I could track down which of those is the cultprit, I could (possibly), go
back to an older [something] that supported crypt().
The other silly thing is, this could potentially blow out security on all restricted
systems. That is, if crypt is not implemented, and many people use [en]crypted
passwords (eg the shadow suite which is widely implemented), how does one validate the
password a user supplies. Forget Perl, this could apply to any language (couldn't it?)
I really don't understand this a whole lot, I just want to be able to run the programs
I ran a week ago.
Phillip
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