From owner-freebsd-current Sun Nov 12 23:56:04 1995 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id XAA19075 for current-outgoing; Sun, 12 Nov 1995 23:56:04 -0800 Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id XAA18982 for ; Sun, 12 Nov 1995 23:55:47 -0800 Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id IAA29984; Mon, 13 Nov 1995 08:54:08 +0100 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id IAA13409; Mon, 13 Nov 1995 08:54:08 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.9) id IAA24875; Mon, 13 Nov 1995 08:26:01 +0100 From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199511130726.IAA24875@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: Dual personality crypt. To: jonny@gaia.coppe.ufrj.br (Joao Carlos Mendes Luis) Date: Mon, 13 Nov 1995 08:26:00 +0100 (MET) Cc: current@freefall.freebsd.org Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199511130242.AAA07777@gaia.coppe.ufrj.br> from "Joao Carlos Mendes Luis" at Nov 13, 95 00:41:59 am X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 755 Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Joao Carlos Mendes Luis wrote: > > > Yes, I like this. I would not like to be forced to have ALL new passwords > > using des. > I hope you remember that password entries could be used by other > programs rather than login, su and passwd. If we change the crypt(3) > function drastically we may have to do lot's of new ports to deal > with these new incompatibilities. Huh? All our ports already have to be aware of the longer MD5 passwords, and that's the only implication for them. Everything else is handled transparently by crypt(3), in the shared lib case even without relinking. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)