[nycbug-talk] blowfish FreeBSD passwords

[pete wright]

On 3/23/06, Isaac Levy <ike at lesmuug.org> wrote:
> Hi Pete, All,
>
> On Mar 22, 2006, at 6:08 PM, pete wright wrote:
>
> > 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
>
> I think I decided I'm going to go the PR route with this one, and see
> how that goes:
>
> A usual suspect, Michael Lucas, Rocks hard explaining it all:
> http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2001/03/08/Big_Scary_Daemons.html
>
> --
> Re. sysinstall: I read up, and it's not really relevant to the config
> file changes- (unless there's some sneaky ASCII menu thing to change
> system default pw hash!)

ahh...yea you are right.  i was hoping there was something in there
where you could provide a user defined string to create users....



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