Joris Bontje wrote: > I did a quick and dirty fix, works for me but probably not on > something other than FreeBSD. > Solution use libdes: > ->replace -lcrypt with -ldes > ->replace #include <crypt.h> with #include <des.h> > ->replace crypt(s,p) with des_crypt(s,p) > > Patchfile is attached. Maybe someone with more C know-how can > include this with some nice #ifdef 's Does anyone know if we can safely check for -ldes, and if we find that, assume it is safe/better to use that than normal crypt? I notice my solaris and linux box don't have libdes, so they would still use crypt.