)Rainer Schulze writes:
)>
)> Lars Appel wrote:
)>
)> > I'm not sure as I'm not at the office at present, but doesn't the
)> > Posix Shell offer a crypt command related to the crypt library call?
)> > This will most probably be the same across different Posix systems.
)> >
)> > No idea how safe or suitable it is. At least it's cheap.
)> >
)> > Regards, Lars.
)>
)> Hello Lars,
)>
)> Unfortunately it's not available on MPE/iX (seems to be no POSIX call).
)
)While there does not appear to be any shell command that uses it, the crypt()
)function does exist and is documented in the HP C Library Reference manual.

But decryption is not available on mpe/ix, because encrypt edflag = 1
does not work on mpe/ix ...


)
)The Apache/iX web server uses crypt() for basic user authentication.
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