In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Kris Kennaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thu, 3 Feb 2000, Anders Andersson wrote:
>
> > I add a new user, and with 'vipw' I notices that this user now gets a
> > DES based passwd. (we only use MD5 passwords around). Then I looked in
> > /usr/lib and noticed that libcrypt now is symlinked to libdescrypt:
>
> AFAIK this has always been the way it works: if you install libdescrypt,
> the system makes the (mistaken) assumption you want DES passwords all the
> time.
I agree. It has been that way as long as I can remember (since
around 2.0.5-RELEASE).
John
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