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/etc/passwd.conf

From: Jun-ichiro itojun Hagino (itojuniijlab.net)
Date: Tue Aug 05 2003 - 08:30:57 CDT


        given that DES is crackable in 3 seconds, i would like to propose the
        following change. you can still use DES password entries, it only
        affects newly-created entries (like by passwd(1)). what do people
        think? (ypcipher is kept to "old" for backward compat)

itojun

Index: passwd.conf
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RCS file: /cvsroot/src/etc/passwd.conf,v
retrieving revision 1.2
diff -u -r1.2 passwd.conf
--- passwd.conf 2002/04/15 07:48:00 1.2
+++ passwd.conf 2003/08/05 13:28:58
-4,6 +4,6
 # password configuration file
 #
 
-#default:
-# localcipher = md5
-# ypcipher = old
+default:
+ localcipher = blowfish,7
+ ypcipher = old