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To: Nate Williams <nate@sri.MT.net>
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Subject: Re: New Dual-personality crypt 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 25 Feb 1996 00:27:06 MST."
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Date: Sun, 25 Feb 1996 09:05:22 +0100
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From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.tfs.com>
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> How do I force it to generate old-style DES passwords in spite of what
> the old passwords were, short of removing the password completely and
> then re-generating passwords?  Shouldn't the new routine 'generate'
> passwords using the default routines, but read passwords from both?

passwd should read the preferred type from /etc/default/passwd or possibly
/etc/default/login...

It doesn't.

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