On Fri, 21 Apr 1995, Sean P. Mountcastle wrote:
>
> I was wondering if anyone could me a little bit about the crypt
> function, the darn sysadmin here, didn't seem to install any man pages on
> crypt.
>
> What I am trying to do is this:
>
> temp = CRYPT(player.name, player.pwd);
>
> Now, this is in showplayer.c (the util), I want it to decrypt the
> player's password. If I am correct the player's name is the key for
> their password, and since I know the key, I can decrypt it - I have a
> program I found that does it w/o the need for the key, but it takes
> awhile. I was wondering if someone can tell me what kind of arguments
> crypt() takes (I know CRYPT is a macro in utils.h), and which one is the
> key and which one is the password.
>
There is no decryption on UNX CRYPT so it can't be done that way...:(
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