Re: Should md5 password settings be preserved across upgrades?
On Sat, Aug 09, 2003 at 06:12:40PM +0200, Marc Haber wrote:
> when I last installed Debian from scratch[1], installation asked me
> whether I want to use md5 passwords. Since I fortunately don't have
> any legacy systems around, I happily agreed and had all passwords md5
> crypted.
>
> Today, I upgraded a system from woody to sid, and was quite astonished
> that I got dpkg conffile prompts for /etc/pam.d/login,
> /etc/pam.d/other and /etc/pam.d/other. I have never manually touched
> these files since I did not yet fully grasp PAM's concepts. There were
> some changes in comments, and the new conffile versions all removed
> the md5 flags that were present there.
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=186011
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- mdz
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