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Date:      Sat, 30 Sep 2000 13:08:32 -0400
From:      "Brian F. Feldman" <green@FreeBSD.org>
To:        jack <jack@germanium.xtalwind.net>
Cc:        "Brian F. Feldman" <green@FreeBSD.org>, Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org>, hackers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: stuck on MD5 passwd's, host to revert to DES 
Message-ID:  <200009301708.e8UH8X538741@green.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: Message from jack <jack@germanium.xtalwind.net>  of "Sat, 30 Sep 2000 12:54:10 EDT." <Pine.BSF.4.21.0009301245050.24328-100000@germanium.xtalwind.net> 

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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.

Sorry.  There wasn't anyone who both either remembered to and updated
RELNOTES.TXT.  It's now going to be in the errata as a documentation of the 
oversight -- which isn't really too bad, since everyone's supposed to read 
the relnotes and the latest errata, too :)

--
 Brian Fundakowski Feldman           \  FreeBSD: The Power to Serve!  /
 green@FreeBSD.org                    `------------------------------'




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