Crypt for Linux
l’ve recently installed Linux on my home machine and I am stili trying to get familiar with it. After years of using Windows it is somewhat different to my usual set-up.
Hovvever, things have not been completely straightforvvard as I have encountered a couple of problems along the vvay – I hope that you are able to help me.
I dovvnloaded a .CRYPT file from the web and I have the passvvord for it, but l’m unable to decrypt it. The instructions say that you should use the UNIX crypt command and enter something like this: crypt passvvord < fılename.taf.gz.crypt I gunzip -c I tar xvf
When I type it in, I just get ‘command not found’. Would any of the Red Hat packages have the crypt command in (l’ve got Red Hat 6.1)? İf not, can I get a version of it off the web?
Unfortunately, this is not the only problem that I have encountered. When I try and install a package using the rpm command, I get the error message vvhich says “cannot open /var/lib/rpm/ packages.rpm”. When I look in the directory, /var/lib/rpm,
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