From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Sep 28 21:27: 7 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from germanium.xtalwind.net (xtal1.xtalwind.net [205.160.242.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 09BF737B422 for ; Thu, 28 Sep 2000 21:27:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (localhost.xtalwind.net [127.0.0.1]) by germanium.xtalwind.net (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id e8T4Que35064 for ; Fri, 29 Sep 2000 00:26:57 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2000 00:26:56 -0400 (EDT) From: jack To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: stuck on MD5 passwd's, host to revert to DES In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sep 28 Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Thu, 28 Sep 2000, Jim Mercer wrote: > > > the reason i ask, is that if people cvsup without seeing or noticing this, > > they may not realize until too late that the new passwords are md5. > > > > anyone using nis with non-freebsd systems might get really upset. > > It should have been documented. It still can be :-) A change of this magnitude to default system behavior should have been preceded by a HEADS UP to the stable list, IMO. Would have save me several hours of aggravation. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jack O'Neill Systems Administrator / Systems Analyst jack@germanium.xtalwind.net Crystal Wind Communications, Inc. Finger jack@germanium.xtalwind.net for my PGP key. PGP Key fingerprint = F6 C4 E6 D4 2F 15 A7 67 FD 09 E9 3C 5F CC EB CD enriched, vcard, HTML messages > /dev/null -------------------------------------------------------------------------- A Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer is to computing what a McDonalds Certified Food Specialist is to fine cuisine. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message