[nycbug-talk] blowfish FreeBSD passwords

[pete wright]

On 3/22/06, Isaac Levy <ike at lesmuug.org> wrote:
> Hi Pete,
>
> On Mar 22, 2006, at 5:44 PM, pete wright wrote:
>
> > On 3/22/06, Isaac Levy <ike at lesmuug.org> wrote:
> >>
> >> --
> >> Thx. for the resources guys, much appreciated- but that's not my
> >> original question.
> >>
> >> My original question is: has anyone heard anything about FreeBSD
> >> changing to blf as a default instead of md5?
> >>
> >
> > Ike, i have not heard anything yet...although I'm sure patches to
> > sysinstall would be welcome ;)
>
> Hrm.  Ok, well, if I'm scripting this for myself, I may as well save
> the rest of the world the extra 2 min. per box...
>
> :P
>
> Where do you think I should submit such a patch?

good question....maybe release-eng?  although they are probably very
busy ATM...i sorta remeber an annoucement regarding possible projects
that need devs....

http://www.freebsd.org/projects/ideas/#p-sysinstall

have not heard much since this page went up though..


>
> >
> > on an easier note, would it be possible to supply the blowfish
> > password stuff in script that you can pass to sysinstall....check out
> > sysinstall(8).  now i've never tried to extend it in such a way so
> > take it FWIW.
>
> Noted- thx.  Just learned something new here about sysinstall- I'll
> check this out.
>
> I was basically just thinking of applying a patch based on a diff of
> the 2 files involved.  (it's a really trivial change, in the end).
>

really?  sweet, i'd be interested in checking those out....
-p

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