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Date:      Sat, 30 Sep 2000 12:54:10 -0400 (EDT)
From:      jack <jack@germanium.xtalwind.net>
To:        "Brian F. Feldman" <green@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org>, hackers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: stuck on MD5 passwd's, host to revert to DES 
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0009301245050.24328-100000@germanium.xtalwind.net>
In-Reply-To: <200009301629.e8UGSx538498@green.dyndns.org>

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Today Brian F. Feldman wrote:

> You had to install DES and _then_ add the +:::::::: line.  Now there's one 
> more step.  

Exactly.  Since at least 2.0.5 those needing DES passwords
installed DES, and later CRYPTO, and we had them. As you said,
`Now there's one more step.' The problem is that nobody bothered
to tell us ahead of time about the additional step.

I still maintain that this is a change in default system behavior
and therefore there should have been a HEADS UP, and it should
have been mentioned in RELNOTES.TXT and UPDATING.

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