Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 05:57:28 +0100 (CET) From: Oliver Fromme <olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de> To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: NODESCRYPTLINKS=true doesn't work Message-ID: <200003130457.FAA39525@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de> In-Reply-To: <8ah5e5$20d7$1@atlantis.rz.tu-clausthal.de>
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Kris Kennaway <kris@hub.freebsd.org> wrote in list.freebsd-current: > DES crypt links have a "higher priority" than MD5 crypt links - if you do > a make install in secure/lib/libcrypt or lib/libcrypt, each will overwrite > the libcrypt links of the other. The difference is that make world runs > secure/lib/libcrypt last, so the DES links win. So, as the name suggests, > unless you want no DES crypt links (keep the MD5 links, please!), you > don't use it. Ah, now I understand. Thankyou very much for the explanation. May I suggest that the above paragraph is added to the setting in etc/defaults/make.conf? The current comment in that file is not really helpful. At least not for me. :-) > "WANTDESCRYPTLINKS" is the historical behaviour which hasn't > changed. Are you sure? I think the historical behaviour was to _not_ touch the symlinks at all, which I thought was a very sensible and POLA-conforming default. I'm always using the DES-capable crypt lib (to be able to share passwords with Solaris boxes), and a "make world" never changed the symlinks. Regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, Leibnizstr. 18/61, 38678 Clausthal, Germany (Info: finger userinfo:olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de) "In jedem Stück Kohle wartet ein Diamant auf seine Geburt" (Terry Pratchett) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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