From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Sep 30 9:54:18 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 54AD737B503; Sat, 30 Sep 2000 09:54:13 -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 e8UGsAe24990; Sat, 30 Sep 2000 12:54:10 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sat, 30 Sep 2000 12:54:10 -0400 (EDT) From: jack To: "Brian F. Feldman" Cc: Robert Watson , hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: stuck on MD5 passwd's, host to revert to DES In-Reply-To: <200009301629.e8UGSx538498@green.dyndns.org> 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 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. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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