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From: Archie Cobbs <archie@whistle.com>
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Subject: Re: Long username/password
In-Reply-To: <19991005103919.A17991@osfmail.isc.rit.edu> from Jon Parise at "Oct 5, 1999 10:39:19 am"
To: jcptch@osfmail.isc.rit.edu (Jon Parise)
Date: Tue, 5 Oct 1999 11:52:04 -0700 (PDT)
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Jon Parise writes:
> > DES *is* the default if the DES libraries are installed, unless the
> > user in question already has an MD5 password (in which case the system
> > will keep using MD5 every time he/she changes his/her password)
> 
> If the DES libraries are already installed on a system, is there a
> way to still use MD5 passwords by default?

I've complained about this before, and I'll do it again :-)

The following two things are NOT the same thing:

  1. I want and am allowed to install DES on my system
  2. I want DES encrypted passwords

The FreeBSD installer seems to not know the difference (the last
time I checked, anyway).

-Archie

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