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authorTheo de Raadt <deraadt@cvs.openbsd.org>1996-11-01 03:45:29 +0000
committerTheo de Raadt <deraadt@cvs.openbsd.org>1996-11-01 03:45:29 +0000
commitbc6b836c168aa2c247b85ebd9252913b3b6d63ba (patch)
treef6024d9ae082f1fa548dcf8b2c102e986da29c0d /lib/libc/crypt/crypt.3
parentb19a2264b423647fb4e4aab66787b1b04bf5f48d (diff)
explain better how to make exportable bins
Diffstat (limited to 'lib/libc/crypt/crypt.3')
-rw-r--r--lib/libc/crypt/crypt.316
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/lib/libc/crypt/crypt.3 b/lib/libc/crypt/crypt.3
index 794431c8097..f58c09963a4 100644
--- a/lib/libc/crypt/crypt.3
+++ b/lib/libc/crypt/crypt.3
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: crypt.3,v 1.3 1996/08/07 18:40:26 downsj Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: crypt.3,v 1.4 1996/11/01 03:45:28 deraadt Exp $
.\"
.\" FreeSec: libcrypt
.\"
@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ function performs password encryption, based on the
Data Encryption Standard (DES).
Additional code has been added to deter key search attempts.
The first argument to
-.Nm crypt
+.Fn crypt
is a
.Dv null Ns -terminated
string, typically a user's typed password.
@@ -231,8 +231,14 @@ first appeared in
This library (FreeSec 1.0) was developed outside the United States of America
as an unencumbered replacement for the U.S.-only libcrypt encryption
library.
-Programs linked against the crypt() interface may be exported from the U.S.A.
-only if they use crypt() solely for authentication purposes and avoid use of
-the other programmer interfaces listed above.
+Programs linked against the
+.Fn crypt
+interface may be exported from the U.S.A. only if they use
+.Fn crypt
+solely for authentication purposes and avoid use of
+the other programmer interfaces listed above. Special care has been taken
+in the library so that programs which only use the
+.Fn crypt
+interface do not pull in the other components.
.Sh AUTHOR
David Burren <davidb@werj.com.au>