"Jeremy C. Reed" <reed@reedmedia.net> writes:
> Sounds good to use md5 by default.
> 
> What about making it the default for pw_getconf(3)

That's fine _in addition_ if no one objects -- probably a good idea.

> instead? (And not
> having a /etc/passwd.conf in place by default.)

That isn't. The file itself is good documentation -- sysadmins will
look at it and say "ooh, what does that do?" and read the man page. I
didn't even realize it existed for a long time, because there wasn't a
default one and I had no idea that there was a man page to read.


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