Date: Sat, 30 Sep 2000 02:30:44 -0400 From: "Brian F. Feldman" <green@FreeBSD.org> To: jack <jack@germanium.xtalwind.net> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: stuck on MD5 passwd's, host to revert to DES Message-ID: <200009300630.e8U6Ui534066@green.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: Message from jack <jack@germanium.xtalwind.net> of "Fri, 29 Sep 2000 00:26:56 EDT." <Pine.BSF.4.21.0009290023040.34524-100000@germanium.xtalwind.net>
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> 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. The default has always been one of two, DES or MD5 depending on whether or not you installed DES, so there isn't a change in behavior for most people (or, now that installing the "secure" distribution is really useful, I guess most people who already use it). Yes, I didn't quite document the switch enough; I've fixed that now. It wasn't necessarily easy to find the info in login_cap(3) when compared to login.conf(5). The yp(4) page also describes it. -- Brian Fundakowski Feldman \ FreeBSD: The Power to Serve! / green@FreeBSD.org `------------------------------' To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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