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hi,

On Sun, Apr 14, 2002 at 10:11:41AM -0400, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
> In message <20020414010934.A3325@noc.untraceable.net>, Andrew Brown
> writes:
> >
> > Incidentally, why isn't this in login.conf instead?=20
> >
> > Is there some reason to have NetBSD's login.conf be different from
> > other login.conf implementations for just how passwords are stored?
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> I've been asking that for a *long* time.  I haven't yet seen a
> satisfactory answer, either.
>
> [...]=20
>
> Also (and as noted by others) there are other things in NetBSD's
> login.conf that only affect passwd, such as passwordtime and
> minpasswordlen.

but that's something different, because you define login *classes* in
login.conf and thus you can specify different passwordtime and
minpasswordlen for different users.

i don't think there is a reason to put this into login.conf because it
has nothing to do with login classes, it defines *system* behaviour wrt
password encryption algorithm.

regards,

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