Re: [vile] Incompatibility of crypt option between different builds

[Thomas Dickey]

On Mon, 1 Oct 2007, Chris G wrote:

> I am in the process of moving from Slackware 11 to Fedora 7.
>
> I use the -k option in vile to encrypt some files and files encrypted
> with the Slackware version of vile that I built are not compatible
> with the Fedora 7 version of vile that I have just recently built.
> Both are the same version of vile (9.5o + patches) but it would seem
> that the different libraries on the two systems mean that crypt
> doesn't do the same thing.
>
> 'man crypt' on both systems produces exactly the same man page, the
> only thing I can think of that might be different is that my Fedora 7
> system is 64-bit and the Slackware system was 32-bit.

I'm not sure either - it may be in vile, or may be in the libraries.

It "should" be portable though, from what I recall of the underlying
library source...

I might be able to investigate this (don't have a 64-bit Linux, but can
do some testing on a couple of unix boxes).
> If I run the Slackware vile executable on the Fedora system (it works
> OK because I have 32-bit compatibility libraries installed) then the
> encrypted files are decrypted correctly.  That's a usable workaround
> for the moment but I'd ratehr like to know what's causing the
> incompatibility.
>
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> Chris Green
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