It was a rather silly question though but thanks to Matti Saarinen for fast
and into point response.
The original post was,
>Does anyone knows how bigcrypt() work? I wrote a small C program to
>automate account creation including password encryption when I was deciding
>which algorithm to use by trying all of them (using dispcrypt()) the
>bigcrypt() threw 'Authentication database use not initialized first' at me
>while others (crypt(), crypt16(), C2_crypt()) worked fine.
>
Matti pointed out that I should call set_auth_parameters() before I use
dispcrypt which really solves the problem but I still don't understand why
should this be neccessary when other encryption algorithms (called from
exactly the same dispcrypt() function) work only bigcrypt doesn't. I don't
think I will bother looking at set_auth_parameters() man page now as long
as it works.
Thank you,
Jakrit
Received on Thu Jul 02 1998 - 16:08:30 NZST