From owner-freebsd-current Sun Mar 12 20:57:37 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de (dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de [139.174.243.252]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6CD3537B799 for ; Sun, 12 Mar 2000 20:57:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de) Received: (from olli@localhost) by dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) id FAA39525; Mon, 13 Mar 2000 05:57:28 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from olli) Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 05:57:28 +0100 (CET) Message-Id: <200003130457.FAA39525@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de> From: Oliver Fromme To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: NODESCRYPTLINKS=true doesn't work X-Newsgroups: list.freebsd-current In-Reply-To: <8ah5e5$20d7$1@atlantis.rz.tu-clausthal.de> User-Agent: tin/1.4.1-19991201 ("Polish") (UNIX) (FreeBSD/3.4-19991219-STABLE (i386)) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Kris Kennaway 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