Lots of services call crypt and it expects a variable length string which describes the stored secret to compare the actual password against. It is //very// po

Lots of services call crypt and it expects a variable length string which describes the stored secret to compare the actual password against. It is //very// possible to update this one place and 'solve' support for MANY dependent programs and libraries. (towards the bottom of the manual page: http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man3/crypt.3.html http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man3/crypt.3.html )