Subject: Re: /etc/passwd.conf
To: Greg Troxel <gdt@ir.bbn.com>
From: None <itojun@iijlab.net>
List: tech-security
Date: 08/08/2003 14:14:36
>> please read this.
>> http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix99/provos/provos_html/
>> Niels Provos and David Mazie`res, "A Future-Adaptable Password Scheme",
>> 1999 USENIX Annual Technical Conference
>
>Thanks for the reference.
>
>Also, perhaps NetBSD 1.6-stable should get support for the new bcrypt
>option before it becomes the default in -current. It would seem
>unfortunate to me if copying a passwd line from a -current box to a
>-stable box resulted in a non-working account.
Niels plans to send a pullup request to 1.6.
itojun