"Steven M. Bellovin" <smb@research.att.com> wrote:

> In message <20020218014604.A7923@sedez.iq.pl>, Piotr Stolc writes:
> >Hello!
> >Is it possible to use MD5 system passwords with NetBSD 1.5.2?
> >Maybe somebody has already backported passwd.conf support from -current?
> >I want to move an important machine from Linux to NetBSD, and I don't want
> >to use -current in this case...
> >TIA!
> 
> I've thought about it, but haven't done it.  I *think* that it's fairly 
> easy -- compile and install /usr/lib/libcrypt.*, and it should all just 
> work -- the handful of programs I checked are dynamically linked, so 
> they should automatically use the new version.
> 
> But I haven't quite had the nerve to try it yet...

You've been beaten to it - a back-port of all the relevant changes is in
progress, and will be available in 1.5.3.

Andrew