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Date:      Sun, 12 Nov 1995 18:59:43 +0200
From:      Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za>
To:        joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch)
Cc:        current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Dual-personality crypt(3)!! 
Message-ID:  <199511121659.SAA03128@grumble.grondar.za>

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> As Mark Murray wrote:
> > 
> >  This will allow folks to upgrade their
>                             ^^^^^^^
> > machines to DES encryption without having to fix all the user passwords
> > in master.passwd.
> 
> You wanna say: ``downgrade'' :-)

Nyah nyah nyah... ;-)

> Anyway, i like it.  This would allow me to upgrade to MD5 some day
> without losing all my DES passwords. ;-)

Not without a bit of extra work. The default encryption when no salt is
specified will be DES. This was designed as a convenience for those
who have MD5 and want to go DES without irritating all their users.
as folks change their passwords, they will be DES'ed.

M
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Mark Murray
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+27 21 61-3768 GMT+0200
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