From owner-freebsd-current Sun Mar 12 21:27:45 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix, from userid 758) id 16EFA37B573; Sun, 12 Mar 2000 21:27:44 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 152AF2E8156 for ; Sun, 12 Mar 2000 21:27:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kris@hub.freebsd.org) Date: Sun, 12 Mar 2000 21:27:44 -0800 (PST) From: Kris Kennaway To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: NODESCRYPTLINKS=true doesn't work In-Reply-To: <200003130457.FAA39525@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 13 Mar 2000, Oliver Fromme wrote: > > "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 As Bruce explained, someone broke it a while back. > crypt lib (to be able to share passwords with Solaris boxes), > and a "make world" never changed the symlinks. For the reason I already explained. Kris ---- In God we Trust -- all others must submit an X.509 certificate. -- Charles Forsythe To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message