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. file a bug against base-config. that is actually outside the realm of boot-floppies. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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