Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2012 22:19:42 +0000 (UTC) From: Eitan Adler <eadler@FreeBSD.org> To: doc-committers@freebsd.org, svn-doc-all@freebsd.org, svn-doc-head@freebsd.org Subject: svn commit: r39250 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq Message-ID: <201207222219.q6MMJgeH032082@svn.freebsd.org>
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Author: eadler (src,ports committer) Date: Sun Jul 22 22:19:41 2012 New Revision: 39250 URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/39250 Log: We now use blf by default instead of md5 Approved by: wblock Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.sgml Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.sgml ============================================================================== --- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.sgml Sun Jul 22 22:19:39 2012 (r39249) +++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.sgml Sun Jul 22 22:19:41 2012 (r39250) @@ -1849,8 +1849,10 @@ </question> <answer> - <para>The default password format on &os; is to use - <emphasis>MD5</emphasis>-based passwords. These are + <para>&os; 7 and 8 use MD5 password hashing by + default. Recent versions + of &os; use <emphasis>blf</emphasis> by default. + These are believed to be more secure than the traditional &unix; password format, which used a scheme based on the <emphasis>DES</emphasis> algorithm. DES passwords are still
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