Re: Which password cipher ?

[Julio Merino <jmmv84%gmail.com@localhost>]

On 12/1/10 1:25 PM, Antti Kantee wrote:
> On Wed Dec 01 2010 at 11:08:31 +0000, Julio Merino wrote:
> > > Does sysinst even make it possible to select sha1?  Yes, let's just
> > > drop the question from sysinst.
> > Yes it does; it actually offers 4 choices (last time I checked) and no
> > explanation whatsoever (other than the 8-char limitation of DES) as to
> > why you would want one or the other.
> >
> > If we are to change the default, I presume the right way to do this
> > would be to modify the default passwd.conf file in src/etc and drop all
> > code that mucks with it from sysinst.  See attached patch.
> Ah, I was looking at old sysinst sources.  Yes, I support that patch.
>
> Maybe "old" is a better default ypcipher, though?
I think that makes sense; made the change.
>    ... hmm, if that
> patch gets shouted down, I counterpropose to add another query to select
> ypcipher ;)
Heh, nice point.