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 `------------------------------' To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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