On Wed, 9 Jul 2003, Bijan Soleymani wrote:

> It really annoys me when software tries to push security down my throat.
> Often I'm going to be running insecure programs on my lan at home which
> doesn't bother me at all, etc.
>

In this case it is because the IETF now deprecate plaintext logins.
(There's a draft RFC about it somewhere.)

Apart from the instructions you gave, a more "debianish" way of doing it
would be

# dpkg-reconfigure libc-client2002

(or 2003)

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