Subject: Re: /etc/passwd.conf
To: Jun-ichiro itojun Hagino <itojun@iijlab.net>
From: Todd Vierling <tv@pobox.com>
List: tech-security
Date: 08/05/2003 11:19:36
On Tue, 5 Aug 2003, Jun-ichiro itojun Hagino wrote:

: 	given that DES is crackable in 3 seconds, i would like to propose the
: 	following change.  you can still use DES password entries, it only
: 	affects newly-created entries (like by passwd(1)).  what do people
: 	think?  (ypcipher is kept to "old" for backward compat)

This was brought up some time ago.  The result was that the default is
selectable in sysinst, and the copy in src/etc/passwd.conf is intentionally
left commented out.

Rather than changing src/etc/passwd.conf, which will be blown away by
sysinst, you probably want to add a Blowfish option to sysinst.

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-- Todd Vierling <tv@pobox.com>