Re: Security trough paranoia
On Fri, Mar 30, 2001 at 05:13:12PM -0800, Ben Gertzfield wrote:
...
> How exactly are you proposing to keep change shadow passwords back and
> forth from MD5 without having the user re-input every password?
>
> This is Very Hard to Do. :)
Well, it seems I didn't think of How Things Work and the whole point is moot
(unless you use Debian box as NIS server) anyway. As long as I don't have to
spend a night in the office trying to figure out why I can't login into that
brand sparkling new debian workstation I just installed...
Dima
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