On Tue, Jul 27, 1999 at 04:19:18PM +0200, Piotr Roszatycki wrote: > But is it really important? I think security is much important and > less security method should be only optional. Depends. There's a lot of local stuff out there that expects 13 characters from the pw field. All that would break. On my systems that's a reasonable tradeoff. But that isn't the case everywhere, and to break traditional unix semantics is not something debian can do lightly. > Maybe at install time user could choose crypting method? > For now it is possible to choose shadow or non-shadow system. That's been suggested before (and I think it's a reasonable idea), but no one AFAIK has submitted a patch to do this. Mike Stone
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