Re: Special password protection [PATCH]

[Jochen Hoenicke]

On Oct 17, OKUJI Yoshinori wrote:
> From: "Jochen Hoenicke" <address@hidden>
> Subject: Re: Special password protection [PATCH]
> Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2000 11:18:30 +0200 (MET DST)
> 
> > I have now integrated the md5 passwords into grub.  The patch is at
> > http://www.informatik.uni-oldenburg.de/~delwi/grub/grub-md5-passwords.tar.gz
> 
>   Why don't you check it in to the CVS? ;-)

Okay, I will do it.

> > To generate md5 passwords I have included a perl script that uses the
> > unix crypt command for this.  This only works if your system supports
> > md5 passwords (most modern linux systems do).
> 
>   Only this is unacceptable. I may write a system-independent
> replacement, if you wouldn't.

I leave out the md5crypt.pl for now.  I can write an extra utility
program in C, that uses md5.c to implement md5crypt itself. 

On Oct 17, Volker Augustin wrote:
> I am not yet fully familiar with CVS. How can i integrate my local
> project files with the diff file provided by Jochen, i.e. what is
> the reverse command for cvs diff -u?

The unix tool "patch" will do this:
cd grub
patch -p0 < ../grub-md5-passwords.diff 

  Jochen