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Message-ID: <20030529034937.GA6828@openwall.com>
Date: Thu, 29 May 2003 07:49:37 +0400
From: Solar Designer <solar@...nwall.com>
To: owl-users@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Owl: tcb is now the default
Hi,
The latest Owl-current snapshot makes tcb the default password
shadowing scheme. This affects both new installs and updating
existing ones: automatic conversion from /etc/shadow is attempted when
updating with "make installworld".
This automatic conversion won't be performed if /etc/nsswitch.conf is
locally-modified (as it will be if you unconvert a system from tcb).
However, as a number of configuration files now default to tcb,
maintaining and keeping updated a system with /etc/shadow is a little
more work than it used to be, -- for the sake of making it trivial to
stay with tcb. I expect that 99% of Owl installs will use tcb.
The packages which have been touched for this change are listed in the
entry in CHANGES-current.
Please test and report any problems this might cause you before we
make it part of a release.
--
Alexander Peslyak <solar@...nwall.com>
GPG key ID: B35D3598 fp: 6429 0D7E F130 C13E C929 6447 73C3 A290 B35D 3598
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