Re: How I installed Sarge using netinst CD
On Tue, Sep 09, 2003 at 01:15:48PM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
> This problem was solved in a recent upload of the shadow package:
>
> shadow (1:4.0.3-9) unstable; urgency=low
> [...]
> * And last, but not least, what's undoubtedly going to be the
> most popular change: md5 passwords are turned on by default,
> and there is no prompt to change them. Yes, this is reduced
> functionality. No, it can't go back in the way it was; the old
> code not only modified conffiles, it modified *other*packages*
> conffiles and was a massive policy violation. I expect this
> change will motivate the people who have said that they will
> come up with a proper solution to do so. closes: #186016,
> #110228, #171808
It's something I've been wanting for ages. Thanks for letting me know.
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