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Re: Woody install report



Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net> writes:

> On Sun, Oct 21, 2001 at 11:45:47AM +0200, Falk Hueffner wrote:
> > Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net> writes:
> > 
> > > > (3) in the post-boot configuration, why are MD5 passwords defaulted to
> > > > "No" ie not enabled ?
> > > 
> > > compatibility with crufty old unixes i suppose.  if you were to make
> > > the box into an NIS server that would matter i think.
> > 
> > Somebody who wants that will know to what to answer. People who don't
> > know what this is all about will want MD5 passwords, so this should be
> > the default.
> 
> fwiw, i agree, however.

FWIW, I heard it causes compatability problems with some packages.  I
think it would be3 unwise to change this at this point.

> file a bug against base-config.  that is actually outside the realm
> of boot-floppies.

Yes.

-- 
...Adam Di Carlo..<adam@onshore-devel.com>...<URL:http://www.onshored.com/>



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