Vim does not do encryption no more on RHEL5?

[George Magklaras]

That's a bit weird. I just checked and vim -x works on my RHEL 5 box. 
Also vim -h displays the -x option.  Are you sure you are not using some 
other version of vim compiled locally in your system outside the RHEL 
distro and overriding your path? In my box:

# type vim
vim is hashed (/usr/bin/vim)
# ldd /usr/bin/vim
         libtermcap.so.2 => /lib64/libtermcap.so.2 (0x00000033cde00000)
         libselinux.so.1 => /lib64/libselinux.so.1 (0x00000033d0600000)
         libacl.so.1 => /lib64/libacl.so.1 (0x00000033d4800000)
         libgpm.so.1 => /usr/lib64/libgpm.so.1 (0x00000033cae00000)
         libperl.so => 
/usr/lib64/perl5/5.8.8/x86_64-linux-thread-multi/CORE/libperl.so 
(0x00000033cb200000)
         libresolv.so.2 => /lib64/libresolv.so.2 (0x00000033d1e00000)
         libutil.so.1 => /lib64/libutil.so.1 (0x00000033d8a00000)
         libc.so.6 => /lib64/libc.so.6 (0x00000033c9e00000)
         libm.so.6 => /lib64/libm.so.6 (0x00000033ca200000)
         libdl.so.2 => /lib64/libdl.so.2 (0x00000033ca600000)
         libpthread.so.0 => /lib64/libpthread.so.0 (0x00000033caa00000)
         libsepol.so.1 => /lib64/libsepol.so.1 (0x00000033d0200000)
         /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00000033c9a00000)
         libattr.so.1 => /lib64/libattr.so.1 (0x00000033d3e00000)
         libnsl.so.1 => /lib64/libnsl.so.1 (0x00000033d2200000)
         libcrypt.so.1 => /lib64/libcrypt.so.1 (0x00000033dca00000)


Libcrypt is at the bottom. Can you check your vim path?

GM

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Binyon Steve Contr 705 CTS/ASRCC wrote:
> We are evaluating RHEL 5 and found this:
> 
> Under RHEL 3 and 4, one could do 'vi -x' to have the file password
> protected and encrypted.  Under RHEL 5, this appears to be no longer
> true.  So, what is used under RHEL 5 that replaces this functionality?
> Btw the man page states that its still valid, but vim -h does not show
> the -x flag.
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> 
> ~smbinyon
> 
>