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crypt

Section: Standard C Library Functions (3C)
Updated: 28 Sep 2004
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NAME

crypt - string encoding function  

SYNOPSIS

#include <crypt.h>

char *crypt(const char *key, const char *salt);  

Standard conforming

#include <unistd.h>

char *crypt(const char *key, const char *salt);  

DESCRIPTION

The crypt() function encodes strings suitable for secure storage as passwords. It generates the password hash given the key and salt.

The key argument is the plain text password to be encrypted.

If the first character of salt is "$", crypt() uses crypt.conf(4) to determine which shared module to load for the encryption algorithm. The algorithm name crypt() uses to search in crypt.conf is the string between the first and second "$", or between the first "$" and first "," if a "," comes before the second "$".

If the first character of salt is not "$", the algorithm described on crypt_unix(5) is used.  

RETURN VALUES

Upon successful completion, crypt() returns a pointer to the encoded string. Otherwise it returns a null pointer and sets errno to indicate the error.

The return value points to static data that is overwritten by each call.  

ERRORS

The crypt() function will fail if:

EINVAL An entry in crypt.conf is invalid.

ELIBACC The required shared library was not found.

ENOMEM There is insufficient memory to generate the hash.

ENOSYS The functionality is not supported on this system.

 

USAGE

The values returned by this function might not be portable among standard-conforming systems. See standards(5).

Applications should not use crypt() to store or verify user passwords but should use the functions described on pam(3PAM) instead.  

ATTRIBUTES

See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

ATTRIBUTE TYPEATTRIBUTE VALUE
Interface StabilityStandard
MT-LevelMT-Safe

 

SEE ALSO

passwd(1), crypt_genhash_impl(3C), crypt_gensalt(3C), crypt_gensalt_impl(3C), getpassphrase(3C), pam(3PAM), passwd(4), policy.conf(4), attributes(5), crypt_unix(5), standards(5)


 

Index

NAME
SYNOPSIS
Standard conforming
DESCRIPTION
RETURN VALUES
ERRORS
USAGE
ATTRIBUTES
SEE ALSO

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