On Sun, 4 Apr 2004, Sam Hartman wrote: > The down side of this proposal is that if the user somehow aborts the > upgrade between running the preinst and the upgrade completing, they > will have md5 passwords disabled. I think that's acceptable, because > when they do eventually upgrade to sarge, the md5 passwords will be > enabled again. No, that would be a bug in your maintainer scripts. There are rollback options.