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.

The Apache/iX web server uses crypt() for basic user authentication.
--
Mark Bixby                      E-mail: [log in to unmask]
Coast Community College Dist.   Web: http://www.cccd.edu/~markb/
District Information Services   1370 Adams Ave, Costa Mesa, CA, USA 92626-5429
Technical Support               +1 714 438-4647
"You can tune a file system, but you can't tune a fish." - tunefs(1M)