Jerry Sutton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> If you are working on a project using, say, Solaris/OpenSolaris, HP-UX,
> and Linux, and you want to use NIS (ick), you want the same
> authentication mechanism everywhere. Otherwise (voice of experience
> here), you will change the password with one mechanism, wind up with old
> Shawn Walker wrote:
> <snip>
> > Is there any reason why it is bad to default to md5? I assume it
> > causes system upgrade / migration issues...
Linux in also has a different (worse ?) md5 algorithm than Sun has
by default.
Jörg
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