Re: Bug#155583: radiusd-freeradius history and future
>>>>> "Matt" == Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org> writes:
Matt> I think a single "Will you be using NIS?" question would be
Matt> justified; this could provide defaults for md5 vs. crypt
Matt> passwords and setuid-ness of unix_chkpwd, and so those
Matt> questions could be suppressed by default.
I disagree. Debian is sufficiently hard to install that developers of
security software I've asked to install it have been frustrated to the
point of not using it by the number of questions. I believe adding questions about NIS would be inappropriate.
I'd rather see a solution where we have some nis support package that
makes unix_chkpwd setuid root when that support package is installed.
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