From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Sep 30 10: 8:45 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from green.dyndns.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 859D837B502; Sat, 30 Sep 2000 10:08:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (1pxq7v@localhost [127.0.0.1] (may be forged)) by green.dyndns.org (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id e8UH8X538741; Sat, 30 Sep 2000 13:08:36 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from green@FreeBSD.org) Message-Id: <200009301708.e8UH8X538741@green.dyndns.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.2 06/23/2000 with nmh-1.0.4 To: jack Cc: "Brian F. Feldman" , Robert Watson , hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: stuck on MD5 passwd's, host to revert to DES In-Reply-To: Message from jack of "Sat, 30 Sep 2000 12:54:10 EDT." From: "Brian F. Feldman" Date: Sat, 30 Sep 2000 13:08:32 -0400 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. 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