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On Tue, May 21, 2002 at 10:52:53AM -0700, Bill Studenmund wrote:
> On Tue, 21 May 2002, Julio Merino wrote:
>=20
> > Hi all
> >
> > Just a question... why NetBSD still comes with standard des passwords as
> > default configuration? Wouldn't we enable MD5 in -current as default
> > setup?
>=20
> So that NetBSD can be readily used as a NIS server. While a number of free
> operating systems now understand MD5 passwords, NIS doesn't officially,
> and a number of non-free OSs don't understand them. So if you make a user
> with an MD5 password in such a domain, that user can't loginto machines
> other users can.

Ok, good reason. Though I'm happy with the installation option Jared mentio=
ned.

Regards

--=20
Of course it runs NetBSD - http://www.netbsd.org
HispaBSD member - http://www.hispabsd.org
Julio Merino <jmmv@hispabsd.org>

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