Re: [HACKERS] crypt password authentication does not work in cross platform env

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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