On Sun, 14 Apr 2002, Mipam wrote:

> > The point of passwd.conf is that it's configurable. And if somebody
> > comes up with a better cipher than md5,
>
> SHA1
>
> > we wouldn't want to have to
> > recompile everything just to play with it in our own passwd files,
> > now would we?

But you would have to rebuild libcrypt.

   Jeremy C. Reed
   http://www.reedmedia.net/