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> On 13 Apr 2002, Perry E. Metzger wrote:

On Sat, Apr 13, 2002 at 01:49:18PM -0700, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
> Sounds good to use md5 by default.

I agree.

> What about making it the default for pw_getconf(3) instead?

Good call.

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

Bad call.

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

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gabriel rosenkoetter
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