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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;&nbsp;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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