On Sat, Apr 03, 1999 at 05:34:06PM +0200, a little birdie told me
that Dag-Erling Smorgrav remarked
> 
> > Do I need to change all passwd with 'passwd {user}' to use DES passwd crypt?
> 
> Existing MD5 passwords will still work. New users will get DES
> passwords.

Did we ever hash out a mechanism to do this the other way (or integrate
new algorithms) and set 'try' vs. 'use' algorithms?  I'm unclear as to
whether PAM is supposed to/capable of addressing this.



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