Hi, >i was talking about "i dont know why it is default to use unsecure crypt() instead of md5". >But I can think of something like "compatibility" (to what?) :) to ...maybe NIS ? # if the reason why using crypt is NIS compatibility, people who uses NIS system is not so many, so I think it's better that defalt value is md5 than crypt. -- Regards, Hideki Yamane mailto:henrich @ samba.gr.jp/iijmio-mail.jp