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- The information in this directory should be all you need to create a password
- encryption library for use with I-Net 225. Headers are in the 'include'
- directory one level back (with the rest of the network include files).
-
- Simple create a shared library named 'password.library' to the given specs,
- and copy it to 'Inet:libs'.
-
- Upon network startup, if 'Inet:libs/password.library' can be opened, and calls
- to 's_crypt()' in the socket library will wind up calling the 'make_password()'
- entry in 'password.library'. All of the I-Net 225 clients & servers that deal
- with passwords call 's_crypt()'.
-
- If 'Inet:libs/password.library' wasn't found, calls to 's_crypt()' will use
- the old standard encryption method used by the older Commodore AS225 software.
-
- Two things to remember:
-
- 1) Since the password.library is opened at network start, and held
- open until the network shuts down, if you copy a new password
- library file into 'Inet:libs' while the network is running, you
- will have to shut the network down and bring it back up for the
- new password library to be brought into use. The library is
- held open until network shutdown for performance reasons.
-
- 2) If you do change password.library files, or simply install one
- where you didn't have one before (as in a new install of the
- I-Net 225 package), you *must* delete all encrypted passwords
- from the 'Inet:db/passwd' file, and re-enter them with the
- 'Inet:c/passwd' program, or no passwords will work.
-