From owner-freebsd-current Fri Oct 23 15:25:02 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA17433 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Fri, 23 Oct 1998 15:25:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from smtp03.primenet.com (smtp03.primenet.com [206.165.6.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA17425 for ; Fri, 23 Oct 1998 15:25:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert@usr07.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp03.primenet.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA15941; Fri, 23 Oct 1998 15:24:28 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr07.primenet.com(206.165.6.207) via SMTP by smtp03.primenet.com, id smtpd015819; Fri Oct 23 15:24:14 1998 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr07.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id PAA09033; Fri, 23 Oct 1998 15:24:13 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199810232224.PAA09033@usr07.primenet.com> Subject: Re: [Q]: Buildworld without secure libs (to use MD5 passwords) To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Date: Fri, 23 Oct 1998 22:24:12 +0000 (GMT) Cc: john.saunders@scitec.com.au, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <503.909138642@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Oct 23, 98 03:30:42 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > How about changing passwd check for the existance of a magic > > file such as /etc/create_md5_passwords. Just like adjkerntz > > checks for the /etc/wall_cmos_clock file. This should do it... > > Gross. What's wrong with just creating a new field in /etc/auth.conf? > That's what it's there for, after all. I see absolutely no reason to > create another file in /etc just for this purpose. Good thing to know that we've finally got that "proliferation of config files" problem under control... it's not resolved, but at least we're "controlling" it... Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message