Date: Mon, 13 Nov 1995 08:26:00 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: jonny@gaia.coppe.ufrj.br (Joao Carlos Mendes Luis) Cc: current@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: Dual personality crypt. Message-ID: <199511130726.IAA24875@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199511130242.AAA07777@gaia.coppe.ufrj.br> from "Joao Carlos Mendes Luis" at Nov 13, 95 00:41:59 am
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As Joao Carlos Mendes Luis wrote: > > > Yes, I like this. I would not like to be forced to have ALL new passwords > > using des. > 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. Huh? All our ports already have to be aware of the longer MD5 passwords, and that's the only implication for them. Everything else is handled transparently by crypt(3), in the shared lib case even without relinking. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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