Re: extrange passwd behaviour

[Giacomo Mulas <gmulas@ca.astro.it>]

On Sat, 6 Dec 2003, Hideki Yamane wrote:

> >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 ?

I use NIS with md5, no compatibility problems at all as long as all
clients support md5 passwords.

Bye
Giacomo

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