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...:( ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ tiffani@virek.worcester.com | "The same thing we do every night.... muse@virek.worcester.com | Try to take over the world..." circle@virek.worcester.com | -Illuminati- http://www.worcester.com/~tiffani | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ "Engage" - Captain Jean-Luc Picard , "Star Trek the Next Generation" -
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