Date: Mon, 13 Nov 1995 00:41:59 -0200 (EDT) From: Joao Carlos Mendes Luis <jonny@gaia.coppe.ufrj.br> To: current@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: Dual personality crypt. Message-ID: <199511130242.AAA07777@gaia.coppe.ufrj.br> In-Reply-To: <199511122033.WAA10257@zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za> from "John Hay" at Nov 12, 95 10:33:20 pm
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> > Mark, Great idea. > > > > I think you should offer an option to make new encryptions > > a) DES > > b) MD5 > > c) "the same as before" > > > > to make it general. I don't know if you can do this without changing > > the passwd program btw. > > > Yes, I like this. I would not like to be forced to have ALL new passwords > using des. Hey everybody... I hope you remember that password entries could be used by other programs rather than login, su and passwd. If we change the crypt(3) function drastically we may have to do lot's of new ports to deal with these new incompatibilities. I think it's better to have the problems we have now rather than making a new incompatibilty when comparing to other systems. Think of this before new "great" ideas. If this change is REALLY transparent, do it. If not, let it be an option, p'p'p'p'pleaaaase. Jonny PS: No, I'm not Roger Rabbit... :) -- Joao Carlos Mendes Luis jonny@coe.ufrj.br +55 21 290-4698 ( Job ) jonny@adc.coppe.ufrj.br Network Manager UFRJ/COPPE/CISI Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro
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